δοκός: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">bearing-beam</b> (Il.).<br />Other forms: late also m.<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">δοκίς</b> (Hp.), <b class="b3">δοκίον</b> (Arist., Delos IVa), <b class="b3">δοκίδιον</b> (Harp.). - <b class="b3">δοκίας</b> (Phlp.), <b class="b3">δοκεύς</b> (Heph. Astr.) name of a comete (like <b class="b3">δοκός</b>, <b class="b3">δοκίς</b>; Scherer Gestirnnamen 107). - <b class="b3">δοκώδης</b> <b class="b2">like a beam</b> (gloss.). - <b class="b3">δοκόομαι</b> <b class="b2">be fitted with beams</b> (Pap., S. E.) with <b class="b3">δόκωσις</b> (LXX). - From <b class="b3">δοκός</b> also <b class="b3">δόκανα</b> n. pl. name of two upricht beams constructed with a cross-beam (Plu.), <b class="b3">δοκάναι αἱ στάλικες</b>, <b class="b3">αἷς ἵσταται τὰ λίνα</b>, <b class="b3">η κάλαμοι</b> H., i. e. <b class="b2">beams for hunting-nets</b>; cf. names in <b class="b3">-ανον</b>, <b class="b3">-άνη</b> in Schwyzer 489f., Chantr. Form. 198f.<br />Origin: GR [a formation built with Greek elements]<br />Etymology: To <b class="b3">δέκομαι</b> as agent noun, so "who\/which takes over (the covering)". Benveniste, Rev. de phil. 58, 127, thinks that <b class="b3">δοκός</b>, <b class="b3">δόκανα</b> are Pre-Greek.