[B-Greek] Greek for "brother-in-law"?

Harold R. Holmyard III hholmyard at ont.com
Thu Jun 30 18:31:29 EDT 2005


Dear Carl,

Thanks for the words. There was also GAMBRA for sister-in-law.

				Yours,
				Harold Holmyard

>Carl Conrad wrote:
>
>>
>>  One perfectly good word for "relation by marriage" that does appear
>>  in older Greek literature is GAMBROS, attested by LSJ as having the
>>  sense "brother-in-law" in Homer and Herodotus. You can discern the
>>  association with GAMOS in the word. I don't know, however, if the
>>  word was still in use in Hellenistic Greek.
>>
>
>Using GAMBRO and GAMBRW as my search terms, there appear to at least 101
>instances of the use of GAMBROS in literature composed between the 4th cent
>BCE and up through the 1st cent. CE. It's found in Philo, Plutarch, and
>Josephus among others.
>
>Jeffrey
>
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