Ask at the forum if you have an Ancient or Modern Greek query!

μπουρλοτιέρης

From LSJ
Revision as of 12:00, 29 September 2017 by Spiros (talk | contribs) (26)
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)

Ποιητὴς, ὁπόταν ἐν τῷ τρίποδι τῆς Μούσης καθίζηται, τότε οὐκ ἔμφρων ἐστίν → Whenever a poet is seated on the Muses' tripod, he is not in his senses

Plato, Laws, 719c

Greek Monolingual

ο
1. αυτός που διευθύνει μπουρλότο, ο πυρπολητής
2. (κατ' επέκτ.) εμπρηστής
3. μτφ. άνθρωπος ριψοκίνδυνος, που διακινδυνεύει τα πάντα.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < μπουρλότο + κατάλ. -ιέρης < ιταλ. κατάλ. -iere (πρβλ. κανον-ιέρης, τιμον-ιέρης)].