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|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">twig, rod, staff, streak, groove</b> (Il.).<br />Compounds: Compp., e.g. <b class="b3">ῥαβδ-οῦχος</b> m. <b class="b2">staff-bearer</b> as name of an official (Ar., Th., hell.), <b class="b3">πολύ-ρραβδος</b> <b class="b2">having many streaks</b> (Arist.).<br />Derivatives: 1. Dimin. <b class="b3">ῥαβδ-ίον</b> n. (Arist., Thphr.); 2. <b class="b3">ῥαβδ-ωτός</b> <b class="b2">having rods, streaks, grooves</b> (X., Arist.), <b class="b3">-ωμα</b> H. as explanation of <b class="b3">σκυτάλια</b>; <b class="b3">-ωσις</b> f. [[cannelure]] (Att. inscr. end Va; Kretschmer Glotta 14, 230, Holt Les noms d'action en <b class="b3">-σις</b> 152f.); 3. Denomin.: a) <b class="b3">ῥαβδ-ίζω</b> <b class="b2">to beat with a rod, to thresh</b> (com., Thphr.) with <b class="b3">-ισμός</b> m. [[treshing]], <b class="b3">-ιστήρ</b> m. [[thresher]] (pap.); b) <b class="b3">-εύομαι</b> <b class="b2">to fish with a rod</b> (Arist.); c) <b class="b3">-όομαι</b> <b class="b2">to have streaks</b> (Lyd.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Perh. cognate with <b class="b3">ῥάμνος</b>, <b class="b3">ῥαπίς</b>. A suffixal element <b class="b3">δο-</b> can, except in a few nouns indicating sounds (e.g. <b class="b3">κέλαδος</b>), only be found in isolated, etymolog. mostly unclear words (Schwyzer 508 f., Chantraine Form. 359 f.); but note the old, in meaning close word <b class="b3">κλάδος</b>; cf. Specht Ursprung 230 with motley material. A basis <b class="b3">*ῥάβ-ι̯ος</b>, by Bq given as possible, is defended by Haas <b class="b3">Μνήμης χάριν</b> 1, 132. Except for the <b class="b3">-δ-</b>, <b class="b3">ῥάβ-δ-ος</b> can be compared with Lith. <b class="b2">vir̃bas</b> [[twig]], [[spigs]], [[rod]] and Russ. <b class="b2">vérba</b> (OCS [[vrъba]]) [[willow]] (IE <b class="b2">*u̯r̥b-</b>). Beside it with full grade Lat. [[verbera]] pl. <b class="b2">(rods for) punishment</b>, [[verbēnae]] pl. <b class="b2">the twigs of the laurel etc.</b> -- Further forms w. lit. in W.-Hofmann, Fraenkel and Vasmer s.vv.; also WP. 1, 275 and Pok. 1153. -- We can be certain that the word is Pre-Greek (not in Furnée).
|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">twig, rod, staff, streak, groove</b> (Il.).<br />Compounds: Compp., e.g. <b class="b3">ῥαβδ-οῦχος</b> m. <b class="b2">staff-bearer</b> as name of an official (Ar., Th., hell.), <b class="b3">πολύ-ρραβδος</b> <b class="b2">having many streaks</b> (Arist.).<br />Derivatives: 1. Dimin. <b class="b3">ῥαβδ-ίον</b> n. (Arist., Thphr.); 2. <b class="b3">ῥαβδ-ωτός</b> <b class="b2">having rods, streaks, grooves</b> (X., Arist.), <b class="b3">-ωμα</b> H. as explanation of <b class="b3">σκυτάλια</b>; <b class="b3">-ωσις</b> f. [[cannelure]] (Att. inscr. end Va; Kretschmer Glotta 14, 230, Holt Les noms d'action en <b class="b3">-σις</b> 152f.); 3. Denomin.: a) <b class="b3">ῥαβδ-ίζω</b> <b class="b2">to beat with a rod, to thresh</b> (com., Thphr.) with <b class="b3">-ισμός</b> m. [[treshing]], <b class="b3">-ιστήρ</b> m. [[thresher]] (pap.); b) <b class="b3">-εύομαι</b> <b class="b2">to fish with a rod</b> (Arist.); c) <b class="b3">-όομαι</b> <b class="b2">to have streaks</b> (Lyd.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Perh. cognate with <b class="b3">ῥάμνος</b>, <b class="b3">ῥαπίς</b>. A suffixal element <b class="b3">δο-</b> can, except in a few nouns indicating sounds (e.g. <b class="b3">κέλαδος</b>), only be found in isolated, etymolog. mostly unclear words (Schwyzer 508 f., Chantraine Form. 359 f.); but note the old, in meaning close word <b class="b3">κλάδος</b>; cf. Specht Ursprung 230 with motley material. A basis <b class="b3">*ῥάβ-ι̯ος</b>, by Bq given as possible, is defended by Haas <b class="b3">Μνήμης χάριν</b> 1, 132. Except for the <b class="b3">-δ-</b>, <b class="b3">ῥάβ-δ-ος</b> can be compared with Lith. <b class="b2">vir̃bas</b> [[twig]], [[spigs]], [[rod]] and Russ. <b class="b2">vérba</b> (OCS [[vrъba]]) [[willow]] (IE <b class="b2">*u̯r̥b-</b>). Beside it with full grade Lat. [[verbera]] pl. <b class="b2">(rods for) punishment</b>, [[verbēnae]] pl. <b class="b2">the twigs of the laurel etc.</b> -- Further forms w. lit. in W.-Hofmann, Fraenkel and Vasmer s.vv.; also WP. 1, 275 and Pok. 1153. -- We can be certain that the word is Pre-Greek (not in Furnée).
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|mdlsjtxt=![[ῥάβδος]], ἡ,<br /><b class="num">I.</b> a rod, [[wand]], [[stick]], [[switch]], Lat. [[virga]], Hom., Xen.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> a [[magic]] [[wand]], as that of [[Circe]] or [[Hermes]], Hom.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> a [[fishing]]-rod, Od.:—also a limed [[twig]], for [[catching]] birds, Ar.<br /><b class="num">4.</b> a [[spear]]-[[staff]] or [[shaft]], Xen.<br /><b class="num">5.</b> a [[staff]] of [[office]], like the earlier [[σκῆπτρον]], Pind.<br /><b class="num">6.</b> the [[wand]] borne by the [[ῥαψῳδός]]; [[hence]], κατὰ ῥάβδον ἐπέων according to the [[measure]] of his ([[Homer]]'s) verses, Pind.<br /><b class="num">7.</b> a rod for [[chastisement]], Plat.; αἱ ῥάβδοι the fasces of the Roman lictors, Plut.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> a [[stripe]] or [[strip]], Il.
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