κισσάω

κισσάω, Att. κιττ-, (κίσσα II)

• crave for strange food, of pregnant women, Arist. HA 584a19, Arr. Epict. 4.8.35, Gal. 6.422; κ. τῆς γηθυλλίδος Polem.Hist. 36: metaph., κ. τῆς εἰρήνης Ar. Pax 497 (lyr.): c. inf., long to do a thing, Id. V. 349 (cf. Sch.); ἐκίττα ἡ πόλις ἐπὶ τῷ μειρακίῳ Longus 4.33.
• • II Act., conceive, LXX Ps. 50(51).7.

κισσάω, att. κιττάω, das heftige Gelüst schwangerer Frauen nach besonderen, oft widernatürlichen Speisen haben, τινός ; Ath. IX.372a ; Arist. H.A. 7.4 u. A.; übh. wonach lüstern sein, heftig verlangen, τῆς εἰρήνης Ar. Pax 4971c. infin., Vesp. 349.

κισσάω from κίττα κισσάω,

• to crave for strange food, of pregnant women: metaph., κ. τῆς εἰρήνης Ar.; c. inf. to long to do a thing, Ar.