δοκός: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[bearing-beam]] (Il.).<br />Other forms: late also m.<br />Derivatives: [[δοκίς]] (Hp.), [[δοκίον]] (Arist., Delos IVa), [[δοκίδιον]] (Harp.). - [[δοκίας]] (Phlp.), [[δοκεύς]] (Heph. Astr.) name of a comete (like [[δοκός]], [[δοκίς]]; Scherer Gestirnnamen 107). - [[δοκώδης]] [[like a beam]] (gloss.). - [[δοκόομαι]] [[be fitted with beams]] (Pap., S. E.) with [[δόκωσις]] (LXX). - From [[δοκός]] also [[δόκανα]] 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 [[δέκομαι]] as agent noun, so "who\/which takes over (the covering)". Benveniste, Rev. de phil. 58, 127, thinks that [[δοκός]], [[δόκανα]] are Pre-Greek.