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Headword: Κινυρή
Adler number: kappa,1652
Translated headword: wailing
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
Pitiful, lamenting.
Greek Original:
Κινυρή: οἰκτρά, θρηνητική.
Notes:
Same definition given in Photius, and a similar definition (ὀδυρτική, θρηνητική "mourning, lamenting") in the D scholia to Homer, Iliad 17.5, where the form occurs as cited (feminine nominative singular), of a mother cow, in a simile.
See also kappa 1653, kappa 1654 .

Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; imagery; zoology

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