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Headword: *fu/kh
Adler number: phi,817
Translated headword: orchil, rouge
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning something] with which women smear their own faces.[1] Also attested is fuki/a ['seaweeds'], [meaning] mosses. Also fuki/s ['wrasse'].[2]
In the Epigrams: "he drew up many seaweeds from the well-mooring shores in it."[3]
Greek Original:
*fu/kh: w(=|tini ta\s oi)kei/as o)/yeis ai( gunai=kes xri/ousi. le/getai de\ kai\ fuki/a, ta\ bru/a. kai\ fuki/s. e)n *)epigra/mmasi: polla\ d' e)n au)tw=| fuki/' a)p' eu)o/rmwn ei(/lkusen ai)gialw=n.
Notes:
See also phi 818.
[1] See generally LSJ s.v. fu=kos, II, citing (e.g.) Aristophanes and Theocritus.
[2] = Synagoge phi216; cf. Etymologicum Gudianum 559.26, Etymologicum Magnum 801.55-57. This form of the headword, nominative singular, is attested only in lexicography.
[3] Greek Anthology 6.24.4 (Zonas), in reference to a fishing net.
Keywords: botany; clothing; comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; gender and sexuality; poetry; science and technology; trade and manufacture; women
Translated by: William Hutton on 11 February 2014@12:03:16.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 11 February 2014@23:53:39.
David Whitehead (augmented notes; cosmetics; raised status) on 12 February 2014@06:31:41.

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