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1 κόχλος
Grammatical information: m. (f.)Meaning: `shell-fish with a spiral shell, sea-, land-snail', also `purple-scnail, kohl' (E., Arist., Theoc.).Derivatives: Several diminutiveformations: κοχλίς f. (Luc., Man.); also name of an Arabic stone (Plin.); κοχλία = ξιφύδρια, `shell' (H.); κοχλίδιον (pap., Epict.), - άδιον (sch.). - Further: κοχλίας m. ` snail with spiral shell', often metaph. `waterscrew, spiral stair etc.' (com., Arist., hell.); Lat. LW coc(h)lea, cf. Ernout Aspects du vocab. latin 54f.; κοχλιός `id.' (Paul. Aeg., Aët., Gloss.); κόχλᾱξ m. = κάχληξ (LXX, Dsc.); Lat. LW coclāca (Orib. lat.; cf. Ernout l. c.).Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]Etymology: Unclear κοχλιάξων (- άζων), - οντος m. kind of machine-screw (Orib.; after ἄξων?). - From Lat. coc(h)lear, - āris n. (from coc(h)lea) as backformation κοχλιάριον ` spoon', also as measure (Dsc., medic.); orig. name of a spoon, of which the sharp end was used to draw the snail from its shell; cf. W.-Hofmann s. coc(h)lear. Connection with κόγχος, κόγχη (s. v.) is evident; it has (Pre-Greek) prenasalization. Note also the vowel-variation in κόχλαξ\/ κά-.Page in Frisk: 1,937Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό) > κόχλος
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2 μεμψίμοιρος
μεμψίμοιρος, ον (Isocr. 12, 8; Aristot., HA 608b, 10 [spurious]; cp. Theophr., Char. 17 [22], 1 ἔστι δὲ ἡ μεμψιμοιρία ἐπιτίμησίς τις παρὰ τὸ προσῆκον τῶν δεδομένων grumbling is a species of immoderate complaint about one’s allotted circumstances; Lucian, Cynic. 17, Tim. 55; Plut., De Ira Cohib. 13 p. 461b; Ptolem., Apotel. 3, 14, 23; Vett. Val. 17, 12) the compound μέμφομαι ‘blame’ + μοῖρα ‘lot in life, fate’=complaining about one’s lot, discontented (w. γογγυστής) Jd 16 in a satirical comment about people who choose a deviant life style and then complain (with tongue in cheek?) that this is their ‘unfortunate fate’. Cp. Edmund’s speech in WShakespeare, King Lear Act 1, sc. 2: “This is the excellent foppery of the world … we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars: as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion … and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on.”—DELG s.v. μέμφομαι. TW.
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