sion KoAokvyTy, KoAOKUVGa, and KoAdKuvTa as equivalents 
to ‘‘cucurbita, der runde Kiirbis’’. Liddell and Scott list 
the words kodoxiv0y with the attic version xodoxvyry, 
ko\oxuvOa and xod\dkvrta as equivalents to ‘‘round gourd, 
Cucurbita maxima’’. 
As equivalents to cucurbita silvestris, however, which 
is the name used by Scribonius Largus and Dioscurides 
to denote C. colocynthis, Stephanus gives the Greek 
words, coXoxuvOis and xod\dxuvta, the latter with reference 
to Dioscurides. Pape, with reference to Galenus, lists 
Kodokuv@is as equivalent to ‘‘die Koloquintenpflanze und 
ihre Frucht’’. Liddell and Scott provide the most precise 
information, giving Ko\dxuyGa aypia as standing for 
“colocynth, Citrullus colocynthis’ ’’ at the same time 
referring to Dioscurides, IV, 176. It is this passage in 
Dioscurides which proves that koddKuvvOa daypia and 
KoAokurGis are synonymous with cucurbita silvestris. 
We thus have the stem -xoXoxvv- to which, depending 
upon time, dialect, and writer various endings are at- 
tached. Combined with the endings-0a, -ra, -0n, -7n, -0os, 
and vos it forms a variety of words, all of which are ge- 
neric names for the genus of Cucurbitaceae, equivalent to 
the Latin ‘cucurbita’ and the German ‘Kiirbis’, whereas 
for C. colocynthis there are two names, one being a combi- 
nation of the stem -xoAoxvup- with the ending -@is, the other 
consisting of a variant of the generic name xo\oxvvGa and 
the qualifying adjective aypia = wild. 
We must content ourselves with the realization that, 
from the crippled -xoAoxuyt- in *Azo-KodoKvtT-wats , We 
cannot conclude that it refers to C. colocynthis, as we do 
not know the ending. The occurrence of a -7- instead of 
a -@-in the word would rather suggest that it is meant 
to refer to the generic name of Cucurbitaceae. 
In our view, even the analysis of the text of the 
‘Amoxodokvvtwats does not support the assumption that 
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