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|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">latticed gates</b>, esp. those, through which the knights or the counselloers entered the court of justice or the meeting hall (Ar., Luc., Plu.), also <b class="b3">θυρο-κιγκλίδες</b> (Attica).<br />Other forms: <b class="b3">-ίδος</b> f., mostly pl. <b class="b3">-ίδες</b><br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Technical word without certain etymology. Prob. with Strömberg Wortstudien 15 backformation from <b class="b3">κιγκλίζειν</b> <b class="b2">wag the tail, change constantly</b> (Thgn. 303; opposite <b class="b3">ἀτρεμίζειν</b>; cf. on <b class="b3">κίγκλος</b>), so prop. something like "swinging gate". - After Solmsen Wortforsch. 215 however to <b class="b3">κάκαλα τείχη</b> H.; improbable. Diff. Pisani Ist. Lomb. 77, 549: from <b class="b3">*κιλ-κλί-δ-ες</b> dissimilated and like <b class="b3">δι-κλί-δ-ες</b> <b class="b2">twofold doors</b> (s. v.) from <b class="b3">κλί-ν-ειν</b>; thus also Fraenkel KZ 45, 169. - It seems a redupl. form with prenasalization, <b class="b3">κι-γ-κλιδ-</b>; so Pre-Greek?
|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">latticed gates</b>, esp. those, through which the knights or the counselloers entered the court of justice or the meeting hall (Ar., Luc., Plu.), also <b class="b3">θυρο-κιγκλίδες</b> (Attica).<br />Other forms: <b class="b3">-ίδος</b> f., mostly pl. <b class="b3">-ίδες</b><br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Technical word without certain etymology. Prob. with Strömberg Wortstudien 15 backformation from <b class="b3">κιγκλίζειν</b> <b class="b2">wag the tail, change constantly</b> (Thgn. 303; opposite <b class="b3">ἀτρεμίζειν</b>; cf. on <b class="b3">κίγκλος</b>), so prop. something like "swinging gate". - After Solmsen Wortforsch. 215 however to <b class="b3">κάκαλα τείχη</b> H.; improbable. Diff. Pisani Ist. Lomb. 77, 549: from <b class="b3">*κιλ-κλί-δ-ες</b> dissimilated and like <b class="b3">δι-κλί-δ-ες</b> <b class="b2">twofold doors</b> (s. v.) from <b class="b3">κλί-ν-ειν</b>; thus also Fraenkel KZ 45, 169. - It seems a redupl. form with prenasalization, <b class="b3">κι-γ-κλιδ-</b>; so Pre-Greek?
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|mdlsjtxt=![[κιγκλίς]], ίδος<br />the latticed gates in the law-courts or [[council]]-[[chamber]], [[through]] [[which]] the members passed, Ar.; metaph., [[means]] waitings at the bar, the law's delays, Plut.; in sg., ἐντὸς τῆς κιγκλίδος διατρίβειν to [[live]] in [[court]], Luc.
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