- ξυστός 2
- ξυστός 2Grammatical information: m.Meaning: `walking place in a garden, a gymnasium etc., covered colonnade, where the athletes (in winter) do exercises' (X., hell., inscr., Vitr., Plu., Paus.);Other forms: also -όν n.Compounds: As 1. member in ξυστ-άρχης m. `director of a ξυστός' with ξυσταρχ-έω, -ία (late inscr. a. pap.).Derivatives: ξυστικός `belonging to a ξ., who exercises in a ξ.' (late inscr. a. pap., Gal.). -- As orig. adj. prop. `smoothed', of the floor of a promenade and a colonnade, thus rtill in ξυστὸς δρόμος (Aristias 5, Va); cf. also ξύειν `smooth', of δάπεδον (χ 456) and Paus. 6, 23, 1 with Hitzigs and Blümners notes.Origin: GR [a formation built with Greek elements]Etymology: Not with Meister Die Mimiamben des Herodas 718 f. etc. (s. Bq) as "das mit einem anderen verbundene Bauwerk" to ξυ-στῆναι, against which tell both the meaning and the consequent notation ξυ- (not συ-). Not here ξυστάδες (συστ.), s. v.Page in Frisk: 2,
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