- κράσπεδον
- κράσπεδονGrammatical information: n.Meaning: `edge, border of a cloth', metaph. of a country, a mountain, also of an army = `wing of the army' (S., E., Ar., X., Theoc., NT).Derivatives: κρασπεδίτης `hindmost person in a chorus' (Plu.; oppos. κορυφαῖος) and κρασπεδόομαι `be bordered' (E.).Origin: XX [etym. unknown]Etymology: Old compound of κάρᾱ `head' in the form κρᾱσ- with faded πέδον `plain, bottom', cf. Skt. dru-padá-m `wooden post'; the 1. member points to an orig. meaning `upper border' (prop. "head-place"?), s. Risch IF 59, 14 with Leumanns note ibd. n. 3. However, Nussbaum, Head and Horn (1986) 71 is very sceptic; there is no indication whatever that it would contain the word for `head'. Older lit. in Bq.Page in Frisk: 2,7-8
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