[B-Greek] KAT' IDIAN LK 10:23 feminine singular
Carl W.Conrad
cwconrad at ioa.com
Sat Apr 23 09:11:46 EDT 2005
On Apr 23, 2005, at 9:01 AM, William Hassold wrote:
> Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (based on Grimm's
> Wilke's Clavis Novi Testamenti) suggests that the noun which lies
> behind the phrase KAT' IDIAN is XWRA, which has the sense of "region"
> or "place".
> William Hassold. Oviedo, FL
> Retired pastor and former Greek teacher
That may be the case, but on the other hand, there's the comparable
correlative adjectival pair IDIAi/DHMOSIAi which also uses the feminine
adjective, and I wonder whether CWRA is really the right implicit noun
for these forms. It's certainly likely that CWRAi is the noun implicit
in the expression EN THi ERHMWi ("in the wilderness") but quite a few
Greek adverbs formed with feminine adjectives seem rather to involve an
implicit hODOS, so that we might have KAT' IDIAN hODON as an adverbial
expression meaning "one's own way" and IDIAI (hODWi) the same, while
DHMOSIAi (hODWi) in one's civic way/role/capacity. Such adverbial
formulations are comparable to the Latin pattern of feminine adjectives
+ MENTE (e.g. TACITA MENTE = "silently" --and this became the Romance
pattern for formation of adverbs from adjectives (Fr. tacitement, It.
tacitamente). KATA + substantival adjective in the accusative is one of
the most common adverbial formative factors in Hellenistic Greek.
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
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