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Obols through history The obol (Gr****: ὀβολός, obolos, also ὀβελός (
obelós), ὀβελλός (obellós), ὀδελός (odelós). lit. "nail,
metal spit"; Latin: obolus)...
- (limited
geographical area of use) The word "obelus"
comes from ὀβελός (
obelós), the
Ancient Gr**** word for a
sharpened stick, spit, or
pointed pillar...
- (for "Delete"). The
obelos symbol (see obelus) gets its name from the spit, or
sharp end of a
lance in
ancient Gr****. An
obelos was
placed by editors...
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Homer in
Iliad (1.465)
mentions pieces of meat
roasted on
spits (ὀβελός,
obelós). In
classical Greece, a
small spit or
skewer was
known as ὀβελίσκος (obeliskos)...
- Gr****: ὀβελίσκος (obeliskos),
which means "little obelus"; from ὀβελός (
obelos)
meaning 'roasting spit'. Partridge, Eric (2004) [1953]. You Have a Point...
- (/ˈɒbəlɪsk/; from
Ancient Gr****: ὀβελίσκος obeliskos;
diminutive of ὀβελός
obelos, "spit, nail,
pointed pillar") is a tall, four-sided,
narrow tapering monument...
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Wright 1999, p. 333.
Liddell &
Scott 1940: ὀβελίσκος,
diminutive of ὀβελός (
obelos). Aristophanes. Acharnians, 1007.
Dalby 2010, pp. 70, 225.
Matalas & Yannakoulia...
- omit, oppose, ostensible,
ostentatious obel- spit, nail Gr**** ὀβελός (
obelós), ὀβελίσκος (obelískos) metobelus, obelisk, obelism,
obelus obol- Gr****...
- U+2E11 Po,
other Common ⸒
HYPODIASTOLE U+2E12 Po,
other Common ⸓
DOTTED OBELOS U+2E13 Po,
other Common ⸔
DOWNWARDS ANCORA U+2E14 Po,
other Common ⸕ UPWARDS...
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diminutive "obelisk", "little spit"), the word obol (ὀβολός, obolós, or ὀβελός,
obelós) was
retained as a Gr**** word for
coins of
small value,
still used as such...
