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Headword: *sikui=a
Adler number: sigma,401
Translated headword: bottle-gourd
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] the large cucumbers.[1] Or a medical instrument.[2]
Also [sc. attested is] *sikuh/laton ["cucumber-bed"], [meaning] the garden.[3]
Greek Original:
*sikui=a: ta\ tetra/ggoura. h)\ i)atriko\n e)rgalei=on. kai\ *sikuh/laton, o( kh=pos.
Notes:
The headword, evidently extracted from somewhere, but first attested in this form at Themistius, Paraphrase of Posterior Analytics, 5.1.60, is a feminine noun in the nominative singular. It is registered in the Supplement to the LSJ, where it is given as a later alternative spelling of siku/a (bottle-gourd); see generally LSJ s.v., which identifies this plant as Lagenaria vulgaris (Tutin, p. 298).
[Adler, also citing the Lexicon Ambrosianum, reports in her critical apparatus that the editio princeps of the Suda transmits the lemma as *siku/a. She also notes that this entry and sigma 400 are in reverse order.]
[1] The gloss is the nominative plural of the neuter noun tetra/ggouron, large cucumber; see generally LSJ s.v., which cites this Suda entry as its source, and ps.-Herodian, Partitiones 124.1. [Adler reports that ms M reads tetra/gkoura; also that ms M inserts above the entry to\ par' h(mi=n lego/menon a)griaggou/ria (what amongst us are called a)griaggou/ria).]
[2] Gourds, horns, and ceramic and metal vessels were used as cupping instruments in ancient medicine (Milne, pp. 101-105); cf. kappa 2574.
[3] This secondary lemma is a neuter noun in the nominative/vocative/ accusative singular; see generally LSJ s.v. [In her critical apparatus Adler reports that mss AF omitted this addendum, though ms A (Parisinus 2626) added it in the margin.]
References:
T.G. Tutin, et al., eds., Flora Europaea, vol. 2 (Rosaceae to Umbrelliferae), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968
J.S. Milne, Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times, Chicago, IL: Ares Publishers, 1976
Keywords: agriculture; botany; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; medicine; philosophy; science and technology
Translated by: Ronald Allen on 7 March 2014@02:29:01.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (tweaks and cosmetics; raised status) on 7 March 2014@03:27:08.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 13 December 2014@01:07:32.

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