κράσπεδον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /krás.pe.don/ → /ˈkras.pe.ðon/ → /ˈkras.pe.ðon/

• (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

κράσπεδον • (kráspedon) n (genitive κρασπέδου); second declension

1. the edge, border, skirt, or hem of a thing, especially 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

Declension

Second declension of τὸ κράσπεδον; τοῦ κρασπέδου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κράσπεδον tò kráspedon	τὼ κρασπέδω tṑ kraspédō	τᾰ̀ κράσπεδᾰ tà kráspeda
Genitive	τοῦ κρασπέδου toû kraspédou	τοῖν κρασπέδοιν toîn kraspédoin	τῶν κρασπέδων tôn kraspédōn
Dative	τῷ κρασπέδῳ tôi kraspédōi	τοῖν κρασπέδοιν toîn kraspédoin	τοῖς κρασπέδοις toîs kraspédois
Accusative	τὸ κράσπεδον tò kráspedon	τὼ κρασπέδω tṑ kraspédō	τᾰ̀ κράσπεδᾰ tà kráspeda
Vocative	κράσπεδον kráspedon	κρασπέδω kraspédō	κράσπεδᾰ kráspeda
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• English: craspedophyte

Further reading

• “κράσπεδον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κράσπεδον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κράσπεδον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G2899 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible