If it is of any interest, I found an online source about what the word
means. http://el.wiktionary.org/wiki/μπερμπάντης
It is obviously a loan word from Italian birbante and means
"man with unstable and intense erotic life that seeks/creates a lot of
erotic relations with women"
(Translation from http://www.stars21.com/translator/greek_to_english.html
, this translator is quite good)
That would make it a plain womanizer which nicely fits into the Ladino
text.
g
On 26.04.2008, at 22:10, Gernot Hilger wrote:
and also in Greek, berbantis (Μπερμπάντης). I do not know
exactly what It means, but is is a word for a man in the field also
containing women and adultery.
g
On 26.04.2008, at 21:50, Roman Turovsky wrote:
There is a similar word in Italian- BIRBANTE.
RT
----- Original Message ----- From: "Manolo Laguillo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: [LUTE] Re: Translation for Ladino text.
hi, Herbert,
'berbante'...
for me, with modern ears, it sounds as a sort of mixture between
'bribón' (= rascal) and 'bergante' (= someone very lazy and also
crook,
like the Lazarillo, that famous character in the spanish novel from
the
XVI Cent.).
Saludos,
Manolo
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