ψιλογραφέω

Ancient Greek

FWOTD – 4 June 2021

Etymology

From ψῑλός (psīlós, [of the sounds /e/ and /y/] written with the single letters ⟨ε⟩ and ⟨υ⟩ [rather than the digraphs ⟨αι⟩ and ⟨οι⟩]) + γρᾰ́φος (gráphos, written character, letter) + -έω (-éō, suffix forming verbs).

Pronunciation

 

Verb

ψῑλογρᾰφέω • (psīlographéō) (Koine, Byzantine)

  1. (orthography) to write with a single vowel letter (not a digraph)
    • c. 1150, John Tzetzes, Chiliades, book 5, lines 696–97:
      Τὰ δ’ ἐκ τοῦ εας ἐν μιᾷ τῇ συλλαβῇ πρὸ τέλους,
      εἰς ἄλφα δὲ κλινόμενα πάντα μοι ψιλογράφει.
      Tà d’ ek toû eas en miâi têi sullabêi prò télous,
      eis álpha dè klinómena pánta moi psilográphei.
      The [words] ending in εας with one syllable before the ending,
      all declining in alpha, write them for me with a single letter.

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