κράσπεδον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown. Traditionally analyzed as an old compound of κάρᾱ (kárā, “head”) (in the form κράσ-), with a faded second member πέδον (pédon, “plain, ground”), for which Sanskrit द्रुपद (drupada, “wooden pillar, post”) is compared. The first member would point to an original meaning "upper border", according to Risch. However, Nussbaum is very sceptical; there is no indication whatsoever that it would contain the word for "head".

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /krás.pe.don/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkras.pe.don/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkras.pe.ðon/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkras.pe.ðon/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkras.pe.ðon/

Noun

κρᾰ́σπεδον • (kráspedon) n (genitive κρᾰσπέδου); second declension

edge, border, skirt, especially of cloth
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 2.53
- 250 CE – 350 CE, Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 374A
- 431 BCE, Euripides, Medea 524
- 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 475
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 536
- 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Fragments 382
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 4.6.8
- 423 BCE, Euripides, The Suppliants 661
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 3.2.16
(mostly in the plural) skirts or edge of a country
(pathology) fimbria, affection of the uvula

Declension

Second declension of τὸ κρᾰ́σπεδον; τοῦ κρᾰσπέδου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κρᾰ́σπεδον tò kráspedon	τὼ κρᾰσπέδω tṑ kraspédō	τᾰ̀ κρᾰ́σπεδᾰ tà kráspeda
Genitive	τοῦ κρᾰσπέδου toû kraspédou	τοῖν κρᾰσπέδοιν toîn kraspédoin	τῶν κρᾰσπέδων tôn kraspédōn
Dative	τῷ κρᾰσπέδῳ tôi kraspédōi	τοῖν κρᾰσπέδοιν toîn kraspédoin	τοῖς κρᾰσπέδοις toîs kraspédois
Accusative	τὸ κρᾰ́σπεδον tò kráspedon	τὼ κρᾰσπέδω tṑ kraspédō	τᾰ̀ κρᾰ́σπεδᾰ tà kráspeda
Vocative	κρᾰ́σπεδον kráspedon	κρᾰσπέδω kraspédō	κρᾰ́σπεδᾰ kráspeda
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

κρᾰσπεδόομαι (kraspedóomai)
κρᾰσπεδῑ́της (kraspedī́tēs)

Descendants

→ English: craspedophyte
Greek: κράσπεδο (kráspedo)