λιπόξυλος
From LSJ
πρὶν τοὺς ἰχθῦς ἑλεῖν σὺ τὴν ἅλμην κυκᾷς → you're mixing the sauce before catching the fish | don't count your chickens before they are hatched | don't count your chickens before they hatch | first catch your hare | first catch your rabbit | first catch your rabbit and then make your stew | first catch your hare, then cook it | first catch your hare, then cook him
English (LSJ)
ον,
A lacking wood: metaph., defective, feeble, πίστις Emp.71.1, cf. 21.2.
German (Pape)
[Seite 52] f. L, für λιποζύγων bei Empedocl. 69.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
λῐπόξῠλος: -ον, ἐστερημένος ξύλου· ἀλλὰ παρ’ Ἐμπεδ. 121, 277 πρέπει νὰ ἔχῃ γενικὴν σημασίαν, ἐλλιπής, ἀδύνατος.
Greek Monolingual
λιπόξυλος, -ον (Α)
1. αυτός που στερείται ξύλου
2. μτφ. αδύνατος, ελλιπής, ανεπαρκής («λιπόξυλος πίστις», Εμπ.).
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < λιπ(ο)- + ξύλον.
