πέδον: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: [[soil]], [[earth]], [[ground]] (Ν 796 <b class="b3">πέδον-δε</b>).<br />Compounds: As 2. member in <b class="b3">δά-πεδον</b>, <b class="b3">κράσ-πεδον</b> a.o.; s. vv. and Risch IF 59, 14 f. Adject. hypostasis <b class="b3">ἔμ-πεδος</b> [[standing on the ground]], [[firm]] (ep. poet., late prose) with <b class="b3">ἐμπεδ-όω</b> [[to confirm]], [[to consider inviolable]] (Att. etc.); bahuvrihi w. [[α]] copul. <b class="b3">ἄ-πεδος</b> [[flat]] (Hdt., Th., X.); as 1. member a.o. in <b class="b3">πεδο-βάμων</b> [[walking the earth]] (A.). Adverbs <b class="b3">πεδ-όσε</b>, <b class="b3">-όθεν</b>, <b class="b3">-οι</b> (ep. poet.).<br />Derivatives: Besides with <b class="b3">ιο-</b>suffix [[πεδίον]] n. [[plain]], [[plane]], [[field]] (Il.) with many derivv.: 1. <b class="b3">πεδι-άς</b>, <b class="b3">-άδος</b> f. [[flat]], [[level]], [[on the plain]] (Pi., IA.); 2. <b class="b3">πεδι-εινός</b>, also <b class="b3">πεδ-εινός</b>, <b class="b3">-ϊνός</b>, [[flat]], [[level]] (IA.; after [[αἰπεινός]], resp. [[πυκινός]] a.o.); 3. <b class="b3">πεδι-ακός</b> [[belonging to the plain]], pl. [[inhabitant of the plain country of Attica]] (Lys. Fr. 238 S., Arist., pap.); 4. <b class="b3">πεδι-εῖς</b> m. pl. <b class="b2">id.</b> (Plu., D. L., Bosshardt 74); 5. <b class="b3">πεδι-άσιος</b> [[on the plain]] (Str., Dsc.; prob. after [[Φλειάσιος]] a.o.); 6. <b class="b3">πεδι-ασι-μαῖος</b> = [[campester]] (gloss.); 7. <b class="b3">πεδι-ώδης</b> [[flat]] (sch.); 8. <b class="b3">Πεδι-ώ</b> f. [[goddess of the plain]] (Hera; Sicily. -- Cypr. [[πεδίϳα]] f. [[plain]] (cf. Bechtel Dial. 1, 423); after [[χώρα]], [[γῆ]]?<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [790] <b class="b2">*ped-</b> [[foot]]<br />Etymology: Old inherited word, identical with Hitt. [[pedan]] [[place]], [[position]], Umbr. <b class="b2">peřum</b> [[bottom]], as well as with Arm. [[het]], <b class="b2">-oy</b> [[track]], OWNo. [[fet]] n. [[pace]], Skt. <b class="b2">padá-</b> n. [[pace]], [[step]], [[footstep]], Av. <b class="b2">pađa-</b> n. [[trace]]: IE <b class="b2">*pedo-m</b> n. Orig. meaning [[trace]], [[bottom]], from the word for [[foot]], s. [[πούς]] w. lit.