Saturday, February 02, 2019

 

An Auto-Antonym?

An auto-antonym is a word that can mean the opposite of itself. Perhaps we have an example in the rare Greek word κοπία. See Liddell-Scott-Jones, s.v. κοπία:
rest from toil, Hsch. (pl.); but, = Lat. labor, Serv.Dan. ad Virg.G.1.150.
Hesychius s.v. κοπίαι (Moritz Schmidt, editio minor, 2nd ed., col. 902):
ἡσυχίαι
Servius auctus on Vergil, Georgics 1.150 (Georg Thilo, ed., p. 167):
'labor' autem, quam Graeci κοπίαν dicunt.

quam L: quem Pierre Daniel

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