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Headword: *skirro/n
Adler number: sigma,622
Translated headword: hardened, hardening
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] that [which is] dry.
Greek Original:
*skirro/n: to\ chro/n.
Notes:
Written as such, with the double-rho, the headword is attested almost exclusively as the accusative form of skirro/s, a substantive used by Galen (e.g. 11.736.11) and other medical writers for certain types of tumors and indurations (although for skirro/s = 'chalk', see sigma 625, sigma 617, and under epsilon 1263). Yet there is great variation in manuscripts between readings with double-rho and single rho (even here in the Suda, Adler reports, mss GM read skiro/n rather than skirro/n); so it is possible, if not probable, that the lexicographer has in mind a form of ski=ros ('dry land', etc.), skiro/s ('cheese rind', on which see sigma 621), or some related term.
See also sigma 566, sigma 623, sigma 624, sigma 628; Hesychius sigma892, sigma893, sigma962.
Adler cites Lexicon Ambrosianum 546 by way of contrast.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; geography; medicine
Translated by: David Whitehead on 22 May 2008@06:05:24.
Vetted by:
William Hutton (tweaked hw and tr., augmented notes, added keywords, raised status) on 22 May 2008@07:07:28.
David Whitehead (another x-ref; tweaks) on 22 May 2008@07:17:26.
David Whitehead on 29 December 2013@08:54:49.

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