- κάδος
- κάδοςGrammatical information: m.Meaning: `vase or wine and other fluidities'; also a measure (IA.).Derivatives: Deminut. κάδιον (LXX, Delos IIIa, Cyrene II-IIIp), καδίσκος, also `voting urn' (Att.); with hypocoristic gemination and familiar χ-suffix (Chantr. Form. 404) κάδδιχος, as measure = half ἑκτεύς (Lac., H.) with κεκαδδίσθαι (-ίχθαι?) `to be rejected on a vote' (Lac., Plu. Lyc. 12); also κάδδιξ (Heracl.), prob. after χοῖνιξ and ἄδδιξ (Ar. Fr. 709); hypercorrect καταδίχιον (Tauromenion) for *καδδίχιον as if from κατά and δίχα. - Wackernagel Hell. 11f. = Kl. Schr. 1042f., Bechtel Dial. 2, 374f., Fraenkel Phil. 97, 163.Origin: LW [a loanword which is (probably) not of Pre-Greek origin] Sem., PGX [probably a word of Pre-Greek origin]Etymology: Loanword, cf. Hebr. kad `bucket' (s. Schwyzer 64 a.152); E. Masson, Emprunts sémit. 42-44. From κάδος Lat. cadus, Arab. ḳādūs (Lokotsch Et. Wb. No 988). - Fur. 130 compares ἅδδιξ, with κ\/zero, and suggests that the words are Pre-Greek.Page in Frisk: 1,751-752
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.