Definition of the Greek Word PALIN

Today, Amazon delivered the Abridged Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon. While thumbing it and without intent to search for any particular entry -- honestly -- I saw the definition for PALIN at p. 514. I copied it, transliterating Greek letters, keeping the original formatting, without editing, making no changes.

"PALIN Adv. back, backwards; palin dounai to give back, restore:
sometimes c. Gen.palin kie thugateros ēs she went back from her daughter. 2. palin also implies opposition, on the contrary, reversely; palin erein to say to the contrary, i.e.gain-say; palin poiēse geronta she made him reversely an old man, i.e. transformed him into an old man. II. of Time, again, once more, anew."

The dictionary then lists twenty one words in which palin is the prefix,

from:

palin-agretos taken back, to be taken back, or recalled

to:

palinōdia a recantation, palinode.

The First Edition was published by Clarendon Press, Oxford, in 1906, and is the preeminent lexicon for Ancient, Classical Greek.

This abridged edition was published in 2007 by Simon Wallenberg Press. The Dedication Page reads:

A Lexicon. Abridged from Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon

for the study of the Greek Bible

By Henry George Liddell, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford

and Robert Scott, Dean of Rochester.

 

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