δοκίδιον

δοκίδιον, τό, Dim. of δοκός, Harp.

δοκίδιον

neut nom /voc /acc pl

Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: `bearing-beam' (Il.).

Other forms: late also m.

Derivatives: δοκίς (Hp.), δοκίον (Arist., Delos IV^a), δοκίδιον (Harp.). - δοκίας (Phlp.), δοκεύς (Heph. Astr.) name of a comete (like δοκός, δοκίς; Scherer Gestirnnamen 107). - δοκώδης `like a beam' (gloss.). - δοκόομαι `be fitted with beams' (Pap., S. E.) with δόκωσις (LXX). - From δοκός also δόκανα n. pl. name of two upricht beams constructed with a cross-beam (Plu.), δοκάναι αἱ στάλικες, αἷς ἵσταται τὰ λίνα, η κάλαμοι H., i. e. `beams for hunting-nets'; cf. names in - ανον, - άνη in Schwyzer 489f., Chantr. Form. 198f.

Origin: GR [a formation built with Greek elements]

Etymology: To δέκομαι as agent noun, so "who\/which takes over (the covering)". Benveniste, Rev. de phil. 58, 127, thinks that δοκός, δόκανα are Pre-Greek.

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