περιώγανα
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editFrom περι- (peri-, “around”) + ὤγανον sg (ṓganon, “spokes of the wagon wheel”).
Noun
editπεριώγανα • (periṓgana) n pl
- felloes or spokes of a wheel
- Synonym: ἐπίσωτρονα (epísōtrona)
- 5th c. C.E., Hesychius of Alexandria, Γλώσσαι, Π:
- περιώγανα· ἐπίσσωτρα. οἱ δὲ τὰς κνημίας αἳ περιπήγνυνται ταῖς ἁμάξαις
- periṓgana; epíssōtra. hoi dè tàs knēmías haì peripḗgnuntai taîs hamáxais
- periṓgana: felloes. spokes by which wagons are fixed
References
edit- “περιώγανα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- 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, page 1675