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|etymtx=<b class="b3">-ιδος</b>, <b class="b3">-ιν</b><br />Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">string-instrument, ascribed to the Lydians, but also to the Thracians</b> (Alcm., Anacr.); <b class="b2">also name of a Lydian flute</b> (Ion. Trag., Anaxandr.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">μαγαδίζω</b> 'play <b class="b3">μάγαδις</b>, imitate a <b class="b3">μ</b>., i.e. sing a succession of notes in octaves' (Theophil. Com., Arist.), cf. Schwyzer 736. Further <b class="b3">μαγάς</b>, <b class="b3">-άδος</b> f. <b class="b2">the bridge on a string-instrument</b> (Ptol., Philostr., H.) with <b class="b3">μαγάδιον</b> (pap. Ia, Ptol.).<br />Origin: LW [a loanword which is (probably) not of Pre-Greek origin] Lyd.<br />Etymology: Foreign word from unknown, prob. Lydian source. Semitic hypothesis in Lewy Fremdw. 162 f. Fur. 122, 226 supposes that it stands for <b class="b3">*μαγδις</b>, comparing <b class="b3">πηκτίς</b>, also a Lydian string-instrument, with which it would be identical acc. to Aristox Fr. Hist. 66 and Menaichm. 4 J.
|etymtx=<b class="b3">-ιδος</b>, <b class="b3">-ιν</b><br />Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">string-instrument, ascribed to the Lydians, but also to the Thracians</b> (Alcm., Anacr.); <b class="b2">also name of a Lydian flute</b> (Ion. Trag., Anaxandr.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">μαγαδίζω</b> 'play <b class="b3">μάγαδις</b>, imitate a <b class="b3">μ</b>., i.e. sing a succession of notes in octaves' (Theophil. Com., Arist.), cf. Schwyzer 736. Further <b class="b3">μαγάς</b>, <b class="b3">-άδος</b> f. <b class="b2">the bridge on a string-instrument</b> (Ptol., Philostr., H.) with <b class="b3">μαγάδιον</b> (pap. Ia, Ptol.).<br />Origin: LW [a loanword which is (probably) not of Pre-Greek origin] Lyd.<br />Etymology: Foreign word from unknown, prob. Lydian source. Semitic hypothesis in Lewy Fremdw. 162 f. Fur. 122, 226 supposes that it stands for <b class="b3">*μαγδις</b>, comparing <b class="b3">πηκτίς</b>, also a Lydian string-instrument, with which it would be identical acc. to Aristox Fr. Hist. 66 and Menaichm. 4 J.
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|mdlsjtxt=μάγᾰδις, ιος<br />acc. μάγαδιν;— the magadis, a [[kind]] of [[harp]], with [[twenty]] strings, Com. [A [[foreign]] [[word]].]
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