ψιλότης

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ψῑλός (psīlós) +‎ -της (-tēs).

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Noun

ψῑλότης (psīlótēsf (genitive ψῑλότητος); third declension

  1. bareness
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    1. baldness
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    2. (of a woman’s body) smoothness
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  2. tenuity
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    • late 1st C. BC, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Περὶ Συνθέσεως Ὀνομάτων in The Critical Essays II (LCL 466, 1985), ch. xiv, ¶ 6 (p. 102, ll. 13–15):
      μία μὲν αὕτη συζυγία τριῶν γραμμάτων ἀφώνων ὁμοίῳ σχήματι λεγομένων, ψιλότητι δὲ καὶ δασύτητι διαφερόντων.
      mía mèn haútē suzugía triôn grammátōn aphṓnōn homoíōi skhḗmati legoménōn, psilótēti dè kaì dasútēti diapheróntōn.
      This is one group of voiceless letters, all three letters being pronounced with a similar configuration ⟨of the mouth⟩, but differing in smoothness and roughness. ― translation from: Stephen Usher, op. cit. LCL 466 (1985), ch. xiv, ¶ 6, p. 103, ll. 13–16
    1. psile
      • 146–117 BC, Polybius (aut.), Ludwig Dindorf (Ludovicus Dindorfius) and Theodorus Büttner-Wobst (eds.), Ἱστορίαι III (1893), bk X, ch. xlvii, §§ 9–10 (p. 122, ll. 13–19):
        διόπερ ὅταν ἀνεπιστάτως θεωρῇ τὸ παιδάριον ὑπὸ τὴν ἀναπνοὴν ἑπτὰ καὶ πέντε στίχους συνεῖρον, οὐκ ἂν εὐχερῶς δύναιτο πιστεῦσαι διότι πρότερον οὗτος οὐκ ἀνέγνωκε τὸ βυβλίον· εἰ δὲ καὶ τὴν ὑπόκρισιν καὶ τὰς διαιρέσεις, ἔτι δὲ δασύτητας καὶ ψιλότητας δύναιτο συσσῴζειν, οὐδὲ τελέως.
        dióper hótan anepistátōs theōrêi tò paidárion hupò tḕn anapnoḕn heptà kaì pénte stíkhous suneîron, ouk àn eukherôs dúnaito pisteûsai dióti próteron hoûtos ouk anégnōke tò bublíon; ei dè kaì tḕn hupókrisin kaì tàs diairéseis, éti dè dasútētas kaì psilótētas dúnaito sussṓizein, oudè teléōs.
        Therefore when he sees the boy, without a pause for thought, reading off seven or five lines at a breath, he will not easily be induced to believe that he has not read the book before; and certainly not, if he is able also to observe the appropriate enunciation, the proper separations of the words, and the correct use of the rough and smooth breathings. ― translation from: E.S. Shuckburgh, The Histories of Polybius (1889), bk X, ch. xlvii

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