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Subject:
RE: [NABOKV-L] Fwd: Lolita: Nymphet? Or Larvalet? |
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From:
"WILDISH M." <mark.wildish@durham.ac.uk> |
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Date:
Mon, 5 Jan 2009 14:04:44 -0000 |
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To:
<NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU> |
OED entry: nymphet
[< NYMPH n.1 + -ET suffix1. Compare Middle French, French nymphette; compare NYMPHETTE n.]
LSJ entry: νύμφη
1.
young wife, bride: always relatively young,
as Iris calls Helen, or as Eurycleia calls Penelope;
2.
marriageable maiden;
3.
daughter-in-law;
4.
young girl;
5.
Nymph
or goddess of lower rank, esp. of springs: hence, poetically, water, in mystical theology; applied to souls seeking
birth;
6.
doll, puppet;
7.
young bee or wasp: in the pupa stage;
8.
winged male of the ant;
9.
kind
of mollusc;
10.
point of the ploughshare;
11.
hollow between the
under-lip and chin: depression on the
shoulder of horses;
12.
opening rosebud;
13.
clitoris;
14.
niche.