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Headword:
*feidwlo/s
Adler number: phi,250
Translated headword: frugal
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] sparing, stingy.[1]
Being a frugal person, the calculator who avoids [feu/gwn] giving [dou=nai]. Or from the [verb] fei/domai and the [verb] dou=nai, being a sort of giving-sparer [feidwdo/s], with a change of the delta into lambda.[2]
Greek Original:*feidwlo/s: feido/menos, sknipo/s. *feidwlo/s tis w)/n, o( feu/gwn to\ dou=nai o( peri/yhfos. h)\ para\ to\ fei/domai kai\ to\ dou=nai, feidwdo/s tis w)/n, troph=| tou= d ei)s l.
Notes:
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica; references at
Photius phi103 Theodoridis.
[2] From a scholion on
Aristophanes,
Plutus/
Wealth 237 (where the phrase
h)/n me\n ga\r w(s feidwlo\n ei)selqw\n tu/xw occurs); cf. Herodian the grammarian cited by Orion [
Author,
Myth] 160.5. In fact
feidwlo/s is an adjective formed from the verb
fei/domai with the suffix
-los (Smyth ยง858.7).
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 10 October 2011@21:40:30.
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