ἀϋδρία
νήπιοι, οἷς ταύτῃ κεῖται νόος, οὐδὲ ἴσασιν ὡς χρόνος ἔσθ᾿ ἥβης καὶ βιότου ὀλίγος θνητοῖς. ἀλλὰ σὺ ταῦτα μαθὼν βιότου ποτὶ τέρμα ψυχῇ τῶν ἀγαθῶν τλῆθι χαριζόμενος → fools, to think like that and not realise that mortals' time for youth and life is brief: you must take note of this, and since you are near the end of your life endure, indulging yourself with good things | Poor fools they to think so and not to know that the time of youth and life is but short for such as be mortal! Wherefore be thou wise in time, and fail not when the end is near to give thy soul freely of the best.
English (LSJ)
ἡ, = ἀνυδρία, Pl.Lg.844a, Thphr. HP 8.6.6.
Spanish (DGE)
-ας, ἡ
sequía, aridez τισι τόποις σύμφυτος Pl.Lg.844a, χώρας Thphr.HP 8.6.6, BE 1976.267 (Esparta III a.C.?); cf. ἀνυδρία.
German (Pape)
[Seite 391] ἡ, = ἀνυδρία, v.l. Plat. Legg. VIII, 844 a. S. Lob. Phryn. 729.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
ἀϋδρία: ἡ Plat. v.l. = ἀνυδρία.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἀϋδρία: ἡ, = ἀνυδρία, Πλάτ. Νόμ. 844Α, Βεκκ.
Greek Monolingual
ἀϋδρία/ἀυδρία
ἀϋδρία or ἀυδρία? And there's the additional complication of those ancient (usually late) authors who spell it (properly, they thought) with the movable nu, since the alpha privative occurs before a vowel (ἀνυδρία, "lack of water"). As for ἀυδρία vs. ἀϋδρία, Plato manuscripts show the former, Theophrastus manuscripts (Historia plantarum 8.6.5.2) the latter. Plato and Theophrastus had no diaeresis-sign, and no need for it, so it's really a question of taste for medieval scribes. My preference would be for the most simple: ἀυδρία.
Additional observation: the disappearance in late antiquity of the initial rough breathing (dasia) of ὗδωρ, "water," might have inspired the need for the insertion of nu-movable — so an-ydria instead of the former a-hydria. The same could perhaps be said of the medieval scribe(s) of Theophrastus, for whom the diaeresis was a necessary sign that the now-unaspirated upsilon did not make a diphthong with the preceding alpha. Bill Berg
Translations
dryness
Aromanian: uscãciuni; Asturian: sequedá, secura; Bengali: শোষ; Catalan: sequedat, eixutesa, secor, eixutor; Dutch: droogte, droogheid; Esperanto: sekeco; Finnish: kuivuus; French: siccité, sécheresse; Galician: sequidade, secura; German: Trockenheit; Ancient Greek: ἄζα, ἄζη, ἀζόκροτος, αἰζόκροτος, ἀνυδρία, ἀνυδρίη, αὐασμός, ἀυδρία, ἀϋδρία, αὐονή, αὐότης, αὖσις, αὐστηρότης, αὔχμωσις, δίψα, ξηρασία, ξηρασίη, ξήρασις, ξηρότης, σκλῆμα, τὸ αὐχμηρόν; Italian: secchezza; Latin: siccitas; Latvian: sausums; Low German: Dröögde; Middle English: dryenesse; Portuguese: aridez; Romanian: uscăciune, ariditate; Russian: сухость; Spanish: sequedad, aridez, enjutez, resequedad; Thai: ความแห้ง; Volapük: säg, sig
drought
Afrikaans: droogte; Albanian: thatësirë; Amharic: ድርቅ; Arabic: جَفَاف; Armenian: երաշտ; Aromanian: seatsitã, uscãciuni, sicãturã; Assamese: খৰালি; Asturian: seca, secura; Atayal: mtkzyay; Avestan: 𐬛𐬎𐬱𐬌𐬌𐬁𐬭𐬆, 𐬛𐬎𐬲𐬌𐬌𐬁𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬀; Azerbaijani: quraqlıq; Bashkir: ҡоролоҡ; Basque: lehorte; Belarusian: засуха, суша, сухмень; Bengali: খরা; Bikol Central: tag-alang; Breton: sec'hor; Bulgarian: суша; Burmese: မိုးခေါင်ခြင်း, ရေငတ်ခြင်း; Catalan: sequera, secada, seca; Chinese Mandarin: 旱災／旱灾, 乾旱／干旱; Czech: sucho; Danish: tørke; Dutch: droogte; Esperanto: trosekeco, sekegeco; Estonian: põud; Faroese: turkur; Finnish: kuivuus; French: sécheresse; Galician: seca, secura; Georgian: გვალვა; German: Dürre, Trockenzeit, Trockenheit; Greek: ξηρασία; Ancient Greek: ἀβροχία, ἄζα, ἀζατά, ἀνυδρία, ἀνυδρίη, ἀυδρία, ἀϋδρία, αὐονή, αὐχμός, κράτησις τῶν ὑδάτων, ξηρασία, ξηρασίη, ξηρότης; Guaraní: kyve'y; Gujarati: દુકાળ; Haitian Creole: sechrès; Hebrew: בַּצֹּרֶת \ בצרת; Hindi: सूखा, अनावृष्टि, खुश्की, अकाल, अवर्षण; Hungarian: aszály; Iban: sanggau; Icelandic: þurrkar; Indonesian: kekeringan; Irish: triomach; Italian: siccità, secco, asciugaggine; Japanese: 旱魃; Kannada: ಬರ; Kazakh: құрғақшылық; Khmer: រាំងរំហួត, រាំងរឹះ; Korean: 가뭄; Kyrgyz: кургакчылык; Lao: ແລ້ງ, ຝົນແລ້ງ, ຟ້າແລ້ງ, ໄພແຫ້ງແລ້ງ; Latin: siccitas; Latvian: sausums; Lithuanian: sausra; Luxembourgish: Dréchent; Macedonian: суша; Malay: kemarau; Malayalam: വരൾച്ച; Maltese: nixfa; Maori: raki, tauraki, taurakitanga; Marathi: दुष्काळ; Middle English: droghte; Mirandese: seca; Mongolian: ган; Neapolitan: secceta; Ngazidja Comorian: ntsahaya nkavu; Norwegian Bokmål: tørke; Nynorsk: tørke; Occitan: secada, secaresso; Old English: drūgaþ; Old Persian: 𐎯𐏁𐎹𐎠𐎼𐎶; Parthian: 𐭃𐭅𐭔𐭉𐭀𐭓; Pashto: وچکالي; Persian: خشکسالی; Pitjantjatjara: ailuru; Plautdietsch: Drieejetiet; Polish: susza; Portuguese: seca, estiagem; Punjabi: ਸੋਕਾ; Quechua: ch'akiy, ch'aki pacha; Romanian: secetă, uscăciune; Russian: засуха, засушливость, сушь; Sanskrit: अवृष्टि, अनावृष्टि, दुर्वृष्टि; Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: су̑ша; Roman: sȗša; Shona: shangwa; Sinhalese: නියඟය; Slovak: sucho; Slovene: suša; Spanish: sequía, seca; Swahili: kiangazi, ukame; Swedish: torka; Tagalog: bisi, baisi, tagtuyot; Tajik: хушксолӣ; Tamil: வறட்சி; Tatar: корылык; Telugu: అనావృష్టి; Thai: ภัยแล้ง, น้ำแล้ง, แล้ง; Tibetan: ཐེན་པ; Tigrinya: ድርቂ; Turkish: kuraklık; Turkmen: guraklyk; Ukrainian: посуха, засуха; Urdu: سوکھا; Uyghur: قۇرغاقچىلىق; Uzbek: qurgʻoqchilik; Vietnamese: hạn hán; Volapük: lesig; Võro: põud; Welsh: sychdwr sychin; Yakut: кураан; ǃXóõ: ǁqáa
