διάνδιχα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From δια- (dia-) +‎ ἄνδιχα (ándikha).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /di.án.di.kʰa/ → /ðiˈan.di.xa/ → /ðiˈan.di.xa/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /di.án.di.kʰa/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /diˈan.di.kʰa/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ðiˈan.di.xa/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ðiˈan.di.xa/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ðiˈan.di.xa/

Adverb

δῐάνδῐχᾰ • (diándikha)

1. (Epic) two ways, in two

Quotations

• 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 188–192:

ὣς φάτο· Πηλείωνι δ’ ἄχος γένετ’, ἐν δέ οἱ ἦτορ
στήθεσσιν λασίοισι διάνδιχα μερμήριξεν,
ἠ’ ὅ γε φάσγανον ὀξὺ ἐρυσσάμενος παρὰ μηροῦ
τοὺς μὲν ἀναστήσειεν, ὃ δ’ Ἀτρείδην ἐναρίζοι,
ἦε χόλον παύσειεν ἐρητύσειέ τε θυμόν.

• Translation by Buckley

  Thus he spoke, and grief arose to the son of Peleus, and the heart within, in his hairy breast, was pondering upon two courses; whether, drawing his sharp sword from his thigh, he should dismiss them,[29] and should kill the son of Atreus, or should put a stop to his wrath, and restrain his passion.

Further reading

• “διάνδιχα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• διάνδιχα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• διάνδιχα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• διάνδιχα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “διάνδιχα”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “διάνδιχα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press