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δάρπη

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Ubi idem et maximus et honestissimus amor est, aliquando praestat morte jungi, quam vita distrahi → Where indeed the greatest and most honourable love exists, it is much better to be joined by death, than separated by life.

Valerius Maximus, De Factis Dictisque

Spanish (DGE)

-ης, ἡ
cesto, canasto Hsch.

• Etimología: Etim. dud.: ¿De τάρπη, c. pronunciación «vulgar»? ¿Cruce de τάρπη y *δάρφη (cf. ai. darbhá-)?

Frisk Etymological English

Grammatical information: f.
Meaning: σαργάνη, κόφινος H. basket.
Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]
Etymology: Güntert IF 45, 347 assumes a mixture of τάρπη (s. d.) and *δάρφη = Skt. darbhá- grass-bundle (Pok. 211f.); Bechtel Dial. 2, 289 thinks δ- can be vulgar for τ-. Fur. 261 connects τάρπη and δάρπη, and further σάρπους κιβωτούς, Βιθυνοὶ δε ξυλίνους οἰκίας H. So a Pre-Greek form, also attested in Anatolia.