ἔπιβδα
λίγεια μινύρεται θαμίζουσα μάλιστ' ἀηδών → the sweet-voiced nightingale mourns constantly, the sweet-voiced nightingale most loves to warble
English (Slater)
ἔπιβδα
1 morning after the feast met., reckoning “τραχεῖαν ἑρπόντων πρὸς ἔπιβδαν.” (P. 4.140)
Frisk Etymological English
Grammatical information: f.
Meaning: the day after the feast (Pi. P. 4, 140); mostly in plur. ἔπιβδαι or ἐπίβδαι (Cratin. 323, Aristid., EM 357, 54); in H. ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐπι<βι>βάζεσθαι ταῖς ἑορταῖς οὑκ οὔσαις ἐξ αὑτῶν.
Origin: IE [Indo-European] [792] *ped- foot
Etymology: Prop. on the foot, following in the track, with assimilated zero grade of the word for foot (s. πούς; also πεδά), as in Skt. upa-bd-á- trampling, Av. fra-bd-a- front-foot. The formation of ἔπιβδα is not clear: for a ι̯α-suffix with lost Jot Schwyzer 475; but Solmsen Wortforsch. 269 thinks that ἔπιβδα is a secondary cross (?) for *ἐπί-βδ-α.
