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Headword: *pe/mpelos
Adler number: pi,958
Translated headword: aged
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Referring to] an old man. Also an old woman. [sc. The term pempelos comes] from being sent [pempesthai] into the underworld.
Greek Original:
*pe/mpelos: ge/rwn. kai\ grau=s. para\ to\ pe/mpesqai ei)s to\n a(/|dhn.
Notes:
cf. the scholia to Lycophron, Alexandra 826, where this word occurs (of an old woman). Hesychius s.v. pe/mpelon has other lines of explanation.
See also under tau 1157.
Keywords: daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; medicine; poetry; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 4 March 2010@08:47:55.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 11 March 2010@00:44:48.
David Whitehead (augmented notes) on 11 March 2010@03:18:28.
David Whitehead on 19 September 2013@06:15:37.

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