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|etymtx=-ῖδος<br />Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">mans high boot, half-boot</b> (X., Theoc., Plu., Poll.), also. [[groundwork]], [[foundation]], [[quay]] (IA, Pi.).<br />Compounds: some compp., e.g. <b class="b3">ὀπισθο-κρηπίς</b> name of a shoe (Att. inscr., Poll., H.). -<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">κρηπίδια</b> pl. [[bordering stones]] (Didyma IIa), <b class="b3">κρηπιδαῖον</b> (Lys.), <b class="b3">-εῖον</b> (Ostia) [[fundament of a house]], <b class="b3">κρηπιδ-ιαῖος</b> [[of the fundament]] (Att. inscr.; on the formation Chantraine Formation 49). Denomin. <b class="b3">κρηπιδόω</b> [[give a basis]], [[found]], [[support]] (D. C., Plu.) with <b class="b3">-ωμα</b> [[fundament]] (inscr., D. S., Aq.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]<br />Etymology: As <b class="b3">κνημίς</b>, <b class="b3">χειρίς</b> from a nominal basis; or the word just took their ending. The technical meaning suggests a loan (Chantraine Formation 347, Schwyzer 465); the connection with words for [[shoe]], e.g. Lith. <b class="b2">kùrpe</b> (Bezzenberger 17, 214, Zupitza Die german. Gutt. 125; s. [[καρβάτινος]]), is rejected by Fraenkel Lit. et. Wb. s. v. prob. rightly. Not with Haupt Actes du 16e congres des orientalistes (1912) from Babyl. [[kipir]], [[kipru]] [[quay]], [[asphalt-covering]]. Lat. LW [loanword] [[crēpīda]] [[half-boot]], [[crēpīdō]] <b class="b2">stone basis etc.</b>; cf. W.-Hofmann s. v. - The suffix occurs in Pre-Greek.