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Headword:
*)ombrw=
Adler number: omicron,231
Translated headword: I rain
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [*)ombrw=, future] o)mbrh/sw.[1] Also [sc. attested is] o)mbroblu/tw ["I swell with rain"].[2]
Also [sc. attested is] o)mbrh/santos ["having rained"], [meaning] having gushed forth.[3]
Greek Original:*)ombrw=, o)mbrh/sw. kai\ *)ombroblutw=. kai\ *)ombrh/santos, phga/santos.
Notes:
[1] Denominative verb; cf.
omicron 230; also
omicron 232,
omicron 233.
[2] Attested only in lexicography.
[3] Aorist participle in the genitive singular, with same glossing in other lexica; from Hesiod,
Works and Days 415, where Zeus is raining (web address 1). Weather verbs are normally impersonal unless a god (usually Zeus) is the subject (cf.
nu 294,
upsilon 126). The same participle form occurs in pagan and Christian writers, usually in poetry.
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Keywords: Christianity; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; mythology; poetry; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 6 May 2002@18:48:44.
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