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τένθ-ης

tenthes

glutton, gourmand

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What it meant

1. τένθης · tenthēs — Beekes

τένθης [m.]} ‘glutton, gourmand’ (com.). *COMP Asa second member in λιχνο-τένθης ‘lickerish glutton’ (Poll.). *DER Primary verb τένθει [3sg.pres.} (v.l. Hes. Op. 524 acc. to sch. Ar. Pax 1009, Suid. s.v. tévOatc); τενθ-εύω [v.] ‘to be a glutton’ (Poll.), -eia [{.] ‘gluttony’ (Ar. Alciphr.); προτένθ-αι [m.pl.) ‘participant of the celebration of Aopzia’ (at the first day of the Apaturiae), also ‘forestaller’ … — [Beekes, s.v. τένθης, p. 1517]

2. τένθ-ης · tenth-ēs — LSJ

gourmand

gourmand, Cratin. 320 (lyr.), Ar. Pax 1009, 1120, Cephisodorus ap. Eus. PE 15.2, Ath. 1.6c, 3.112b; cf. προτένθης. (Expld. as λωποδύται, μοιχοί, Hsch., but as οἱ λίχνοι, Id. s.v. τένδω; τ. δὲ ὁ λίχνος καὶ τὸ ἀπὸ παντὸς ἥδιστον θηρώμενος μεταφέρων αὐτὸ ἄλλοτʼ ἐπʼ ἄλλα Anon. in EN 182.10.)

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No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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