κράσπεδον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown. 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

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /krás.pe.don/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkras.pe.don/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkras.pe.ðon/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkras.pe.ðon/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkras.pe.ðon/

Noun

κρᾰ́σπεδον • (krắspedon) n (genitive κρᾰσπέδου); second declension

edge, border, skirt, especially of cloth
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 2.53
- 250 CE – 350 CE, Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 374A
- 431 BCE, Euripides, Medea 524
- 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 475
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 536
- 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Fragments 382
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 4.6.8
- 423 BCE, Euripides, The Suppliants 661
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 3.2.16
(mostly in the plural) skirts or edge of a country
(pathology) fimbria, affection of the uvula

Declension

Second declension of τὸ κρᾰ́σπεδον; τοῦ κρᾰσπέδου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κρᾰ́σπεδον tò krắspedon	τὼ κρᾰσπέδω tṑ krăspédō	τᾰ̀ κρᾰ́σπεδᾰ tằ krắspedă
Genitive	τοῦ κρᾰσπέδου toû krăspédou	τοῖν κρᾰσπέδοιν toîn krăspédoin	τῶν κρᾰσπέδων tôn krăspédōn
Dative	τῷ κρᾰσπέδῳ tōî krăspédōi	τοῖν κρᾰσπέδοιν toîn krăspédoin	τοῖς κρᾰσπέδοις toîs krăspédois
Accusative	τὸ κρᾰ́σπεδον tò krắspedon	τὼ κρᾰσπέδω tṑ krăspédō	τᾰ̀ κρᾰ́σπεδᾰ tằ krắspedă
Vocative	κρᾰ́σπεδον krắspedon	κρᾰσπέδω krăspédō	κρᾰ́σπεδᾰ krắspedă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

κρᾰσπεδῑ́της (krăspedī́tēs)
κρᾰσπεδόομαι (krăspedóomai)

Descendants

→ English: craspedophyte
Greek: κράσπεδο (kráspedo)