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Headword:
*(upeyhnisme/nh
Adler number: upsilon,407
Translated headword: caprified, impregnated
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a female] ready for child-birth; or pregnant. [The terms comes] from the [noun] yh/n ['gall-insect'], which means the worm that occurs in wild figs. The farmers attach branches of this tree to the [cultivated] fig tree, to keep its fruit from falling off.
Greek Original:*(upeyhnisme/nh: a)kmai/a pro\s to/kon: h)\ e)gku/mwn. a)po\ tou= yhno/s, o(\ shmai/nei to\n e)n tai=s o)lu/nqois gino/menon skw/lhka, o(\n oi( gewrgoi\ a)fa/ptousi tw=n kla/dwn th=s sukh=s, o(/pws a)\n o( karpo\s au)tw=n mh\ a)porre/h|.
Note:
The headword is perfect middle-passive participle of
u(poyhni/zw, feminine nominative singular; again at
psi 71, and similarly in
Apostolius 17.57. It is presumably quoted from somewhere in this feminine form (either the nominative itself or an oblique case), but note that some other lexica -- references at
Photius upsilon156 Theodoridis -- have a similar entry couched in masculine nominative plurals.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 26 December 2005@12:03:39.
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