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|etymtx=-ῖδος<br />Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">rope indicating start and finish on the race-course, turning post</b> (Att.)<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">βαλβιδώδης</b> <b class="b2">with cavities</b> (Hp.), cf. Wendel Herm. 69, 345.<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Formation with <b class="b3">-ιδ-</b> wie <b class="b3">κρηπίς</b>, <b class="b3">κνημίς</b> etc. is Pre-Gr. Technical loanword. Cf. Grošelj Živa Ant. 4, 164ff.: Pre-Gr. (to <b class="b3">Δελφοί</b> etc.). | |etymtx=-ῖδος<br />Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">rope indicating start and finish on the race-course, turning post</b> (Att.)<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">βαλβιδώδης</b> <b class="b2">with cavities</b> (Hp.), cf. Wendel Herm. 69, 345.<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Formation with <b class="b3">-ιδ-</b> wie <b class="b3">κρηπίς</b>, <b class="b3">κνημίς</b> etc. is Pre-Gr. Technical loanword. Cf. Grošelj Živa Ant. 4, 164ff.: Pre-Gr. (to <b class="b3">Δελφοί</b> etc.). | ||
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|mdlsjtxt=[deriv. uncertain]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> [[properly]], the [[rope]] [[drawn]] [[across]] the [[race]]-[[course]]: [[mostly]] in pl., Lat. carceres, the posts marking the [[line]] [[whence]] the racers started, and to [[which]] they returned, Ar.:—then, any starting [[point]], Eur., Ar.; metaph., πρὸς βαλβῖδα βίου Eur.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> also any [[point]] to be gained, as the [[battlements]] (by one [[scaling]] a [[wall]]), Soph. | |||
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