κράσπεδον
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editUnknown. Traditionally analyzed as an old compound of κάρᾱ (kárā, “head”) (in the form κράσ-), with a faded second member πέδον (pédon, “plain, ground”), for which Sanskrit द्रुपद (drupada, “wooden pillar, post”) is compared. The first member would point to an original meaning "upper border", according to Risch. However, Nussbaum is very sceptical; there is no indication whatsoever that it would contain the word for "head".
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /krás.pe.don/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkras.pe.don/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkras.pe.ðon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkras.pe.ðon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈkras.pe.ðon/
Noun
editκρᾰ́σπεδον • (kráspedon) n (genitive κρᾰσπέδου); second declension
- edge, border, skirt, especially of cloth
- (mostly in the plural) skirts or edge of a country
- (pathology) fimbria, affection of the uvula
Declension
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ κρᾰ́σπεδον tò kráspedon |
τὼ κρᾰσπέδω tṑ kraspédō |
τᾰ̀ κρᾰ́σπεδᾰ tà kráspeda | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κρᾰσπέδου toû kraspédou |
τοῖν κρᾰσπέδοιν toîn kraspédoin |
τῶν κρᾰσπέδων tôn kraspédōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κρᾰσπέδῳ tôi kraspédōi |
τοῖν κρᾰσπέδοιν toîn kraspédoin |
τοῖς κρᾰσπέδοις toîs kraspédois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ κρᾰ́σπεδον tò kráspedon |
τὼ κρᾰσπέδω tṑ kraspédō |
τᾰ̀ κρᾰ́σπεδᾰ tà kráspeda | ||||||||||
Vocative | κρᾰ́σπεδον kráspedon |
κρᾰσπέδω kraspédō |
κρᾰ́σπεδᾰ kráspeda | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
edit- κρᾰσπεδῑ́της (kraspedī́tēs)
- κρᾰσπεδόομαι (kraspedóomai)
Descendants
edit- → English: craspedophyte
- Greek: κράσπεδο (kráspedo)
Further reading
edit- “κράσπεδον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κράσπεδον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κράσπεδον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G2899 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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- Ancient Greek terms with unknown etymologies
- Ancient Greek 3-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek proparoxytone terms
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the second declension
- grc:Pathology