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θύλᾰκος

thulakos

sack, bag

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What it meant

1. θύλακος · thylakos — Beekes

θύλακος [m.] ‘sack, bag’, mostly made of leather (IA). eVAR θυλλίς: θύλακος (H.), θυλίδες’ of θύλακοι (H.); also θῦλαξ (com.), perhaps a back-formation from θυλάκιον. *COMP As a second member in napoovAaxip (= napaBvAakic) τὸν τρίβωνα, ὅταν γένηται ὡς θύλακος ‘a threadbare garment, as it came to be like a sack’ (H; Lacon.). *DER Diminutives: θυλάκιον (IA), θυλακίς [{] (Ael.), θυλακίσκος [m.] (com., Dsc.). Other … — [Beekes, s.v. θύλακος, p. 609]

2. θύλακος · thylakos — Chantraine

θύλακος : Mm., « sac » généralement de cuir, notamment pour transporter de la farine (ion.-att.) ; sert dans diverses formules plaisantes : dit par exemple des braies des Perses, d'un gros mangeur, ou d'un grand buveur (Alexis 85), etc. ; avec le doublet θῦλαξ (com.), p.-ê. dérivé inverse de θυλάκιον, En composition comme premier terme, par exemple dans θυλακο-φόρος (Hsch.). Diminutifs θυλάκιον (ion.-att.), θυλακίς … — [Chantraine, s.v. θύλακος, p. 459]

3. θύλᾰκος · thylakos — LSJ

sack, a bag

sack, esp. to carry meal in, Hdt. 3.46; ἄλφιτʼ οὐκ ἔνεστιν ἐν τῷ θυλάκῳ Ar. Pl. 763; θ. δορκαδέων ἀστραγάλων PCair.Zen. 69.18 (iii B.C.); δερῶ σε θύλακον Iʼll make a bag of your skin, Ar. Eq. 370; contemptuous word for a garment, ὁ Τηλαύγους θ. prob. in Aeschin.Socr. 42: metaph., of a person, θ. τις λόγων ‘wind-bag’, Pl. Tht. 161a; τῇ χειρὶ δεῖν σπείρειν, ἀλλὰ μὴ ὅλῳ τῷ θ. Corinn. ap. Plu. Glor.Ath. 2.348a.

2 sack in which the eggs of the tunny are enveloped

sack in which the eggs of the tunny are enveloped, Arist. HA 571a14, cf. 552b19.

II loose trousers

in pl., slang term for the loose trousers of Persians and other Orientals, E. Cyc. 182, Ar. V. 1087.

III ball

ball used for physical exercise, Antyll. ap. Orib. 6.32.12.

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