[B-Greek] -OTERAN or - WTERAN?

Eric Weiss papaweiss1 at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 14 10:01:18 EDT 2007


In a Theotokion (prayer to the Theotokos), there is a phrase:
   
  THN TIMIWTERAN TWN CEROUBEIM
  KAI ENDOXOTERAN ASUGKRITWS TWN SERAFEIM
   
  "[the] More honorable than the Cherubim
  And more glorious without compare than the Seraphim"
   
  My all-Greek The Synechdemos spells the second comparative as above - i.e., 
  ENDOXOTERAN. However, a Greek-English prayer book that abridges The Synechdemos 
  spells it as ENDOXWTERAN. The word is ENDOXOS. I can't tell from Smyth or my lexicons 
  which would be the correct spelling.
   
  Since I have discovered misspellings in both the abridged version and the full Synechdemos 
  - though far fewer in The Synechdemos, and the abridged one seems to have several 
  punctuation discrepancies, too - I can't be sure which of the two is correct.


  Eric S. Weiss
  

       
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