γάλα: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[], τό, gen. [[γάλακτος]] (also [[γάλακος]], dat. <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> γάλακι <span class="bibl">Call.<span class="title">Hec.</span> 1.4.4</span>, prob. in <span class="bibl">Pherecr.108.18</span>, cf. <span class="title">An.Ox.</span>4.338), also <b class="b3">τοῦ γάλα</b> indecl., <span class="bibl">Pl.Com.238</span>: dat. pl. γάλαξι <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>887d</span>. (For <b class="b3">γλακτ-</b>, cf. Lat. [[lac]] for <b class="b2">glact):—milk</b>, ἀμελγόμενοι γ. λευκόν <span class="bibl">Il.4.434</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Od.4.88</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">εὔποτον γ., εὐτραφὲς γ</b>., <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pers.</span>611</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ch.</span>898</span>; <b class="b3">ἐν γάλακτι ὤν, τεθραμμένη</b>, at [[the breast]], <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">HF</span>1266</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ti.</span>81c</span>; <b class="b3">ἐν γάλαξι τρέφεσθαι</b> Id.<span class="title">Lg.</span>l.c. (so metaph., <b class="b3">ἐν σπαργάνοις καὶ γάλαξιν εἶναι</b>, of art, <span class="bibl">Ael.<span class="title">VH</span> 8.8</span>); διδόναι γάλα <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyn.</span>7.4</span>; <b class="b3">ἐμπλῆσαι γάλακτος</b> to fill full of [[milk]], <span class="bibl">Theoc.24.3</span>: metaph., οἶνος, Ἀφροδίτης γ. <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Fr.</span>596</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b3">ὀρνίθων γ.</b> (<b class="b3">ὄρνιθος γάλα</b>, = [[ὀρνιθόγαλον]], Nic.<span class="title">Fr.</span>71.5, Dsc.2.144), [[proverb|prov.]] of rare and dainty things, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">V.</span>508</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Av.</span>734</span>, Mcn.<span class="bibl">936</span>; τὸ λεγόμενον, σπανιώτατον πάρεστιν ὀρνίθων γ. <span class="bibl">Mnesim.9</span>, cf. Ach. Tat.<span class="title">Intr.Arat.</span> 4 (expld. by Anaxag.22 as [[white of egg]], cf. Sch.<span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Merc.Cond.</span> 13</span>). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> <b class="b3">ἀγαθὸν γ</b>. a good [[wet-nurse]], <span class="bibl">Call.<span class="title">Epigr.</span>51</span>; <b class="b3">οὐδ' εἰ γ. λαγοῦ</b> εἶχον… καὶ ταὧς, κατήσθιον <span class="bibl">Alex.123</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[milky sap]] of plants, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>6.3.4</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> [[the milky way]], <span class="bibl">Parm.11</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Mete.</span> 345a12</span>, <span class="bibl">Arat.476</span>; but ὁ τοῦ γάλακτος κύκλος <span class="bibl">Euc.<span class="title">Phaen.</span>p.4M.</span>, <span class="bibl">Gem.5.69</span>.</span>

|lsmtext='''γάλα:''' [˘˘], τό, γεν. <i>γάλακτος</i>, σπάνια [[γάλατος]]· [[γάλα]], σε Όμηρ. κ.λπ.· ὀρνίθων [[γάλα]], παροιμ. [[ρήση]] για τα σπάνια και πολυτελή πράγματα, το σημερινό κοινώς λεγόμενο «του πουλιού το [[γάλα]]», σε Αριστοφ. [πιθ. √<i>ΓΛΑΚ</i> ή <i>ΓΛΑΛ</i>, πρβλ. γεν. γάλακ-τος, [[γλάγος]], και (με το <i>γ</i> να έχει εκπέσει) Λατ. [[lac]], [[lactis]].