κρήδεμνον: Difference between revisions

|Definition=Dor. κρᾱδ-, τό, (κράς, δέω) <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">woman's head-dress</b> or [[veil]], a kind of [[mantilla]], <b class="b3">κ. ὅ ῥά οἱ</b> (sc. <b class="b3">Ἀνδρομάχῃ</b>) δῶκε χρυσέη Ἀφροδίτη <span class="bibl">Il.22.470</span>; κρηδέμνῳ δ' ἐφύπερθε καλύψατο δῖα θεάων <span class="bibl">14.184</span>: pl., [Πηνελόπεια] ἄντα παρειάων σχομένη λιπαρὰ κ. <span class="bibl">Od.1.334</span>; δμῳαί τε καὶ αὐτή,… ἀπὸ κ. βαλοῦσαι <span class="bibl">6.100</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ph.</span>1490</span> (lyr.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> metaph. in pl., [[battlements]] which [[crown]] a city's walls, Τροίης ἱερὰ κ. <span class="bibl">Il.16.100</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Od.13.388</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">h.Cer.</span>151</span>, B.<span class="title">Fr.</span>16.7; πέτρινα κ. <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Tr.</span>508</span>: sg., Θήβης κρήδεμνον <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Sc.</span>105</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> [[cover]], [[lid]] of a wine-jar, <span class="bibl">Od.3.392</span>.</span>

|etymtx=Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: [[womans headdress]], [[veil]], metaph. <b class="b2">battlements, cover, lid (of a jar)</b> (Il.; cf. Leumann Hom. Wörter 296 w. n. 60, Haakh Gymnasium 66, 374ff.).<br />Dialectal forms: Dor. <b class="b3">κρά-</b>, n., often plur.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [574] <b class="b2">*ḱerh₂-</b> [[head]], [[horn]]<br />Etymology: Compound from <b class="b3">κάρα</b> [[head]] and <b class="b3">δέω</b> [[bind]], but in detail unclear. The 1. member can (with Ehrlich Sprachgesch. 6 ff.; against it Kretschmer Glotta 4, 336) stand through dissimilation for <b class="b3">κρηνο-</b>, i.e. thematic enlargement of the zero grade of <b class="b3">κάρα</b> (s. <b class="b3">κρανίον</b>), but also have arisen from <b class="b3">κρησ-</b> with loss of the <b class="b3">σ</b> before <b class="b3">δ</b> (rejected by DELG); the formation of <b class="b3">κράσπεδον</b> (s. v.) might support the latter. An original <b class="b3">σ-</b>less <b class="b3">κρη-</b> cannot be deduced from it (cf. on <b class="b3">κάρα</b>). The 2. member <b class="b3">-δεμνον</b>, <b class="b3">-α</b> contains a derivation of <b class="b3">δέω</b> [[bind]]; cf. <b class="b3">βέλεμνα</b> s. <b class="b3">βάλλω</b> and <b class="b3">δέμνια</b>. Slightly diff. Bechtel Lex. s. v.