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1 καιάδας
A a pit or underground cavern at Sparta, into which state-prisoners or their corpses were thrown, Th.1.134, Paus. 4.18.4:—the forms [full] καιάτας and [full] καιέτας are found in Eust.1478.45:— also [full] καιετός, ὁ, fissure produced by earthquake, Str.8.5.7: hence Λακεδαίμονα καιετάεσσανA full of hollows or abysses, read by Zenod. for κητώεσσαν in Od.4.1: butΕὐρώτας καιετάεις Call.Fr. 224
, is expld. by καλαμινθώδης in Str.l.c.; cf. [full] καιέτα· καλαμίνθη ([dialect] Boeot.), Hsch.; [full] καιέτας in Apollon.Lex. s.v. κητώεσσαν; gen. pl. [full] καιατῶν Anon. Lond.36.57.Greek-English dictionary (Αγγλικά Ελληνικά-λεξικό) > καιάδας
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2 κητώεσσαν
Grammatical information: adj.Meaning: adjunct of κοίλην Λακεδαίμονα (Β 581, δ 1; verse end), gener. taken as `full of crevices, abysses', later said of the wooden horse (Q. S. 12, 314) and, through confusion with κήτειος, κῆτος, said of πώεα, φάλαγξ (Nonn.).Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]Etymology: Not well explained. Zenodotus (sch. on δ 1) read καιετάεσσαν for it and understood it as `καλαμινθώδη', from καιέτα (H.) or καιετας (without accent, Apoll. Lex. s. κητώεσσαν) = καλαμίνθη; by Call. Fr. 224 the Eurotas is called καιετάεις. Other informants (in Str. 8, 5, 7 and Eust. 1478, 41) connected it however with καιετοί οἱ ἀπὸ τῶν σεισμῶν ῥωχμοί and with καιέτας = καιάδας (s. v.). - Who follows the reading of Zenodotus, must consider Aristarchos' κητώεσσαν as a `Verschlimmbesserung' (correction which makes things worse) with connection to κῆτος. Thus Bechtel Lex. s. v., who after Buttmann Lex. 2, 92ff., Solmsen Unt. 123f. a. o. assumes a word κῆτος = `crevice, abyss', which would occur in μεγα-κήτης (of δελφίς, ναῦς, evtl. also of πόντος) (diff. s. κῆτος). After Buttmann and Solmsen however κητώεσσαν (with metr. lengthening for *κητόεσσαν) is the real reading, i. e. from κῆτος as `crevice, abyss'. - It seems evident to connect καιέ\/ άτας `crevice in Sparta'; perhaps καιε\/ ατ- became *κηετ-ο-Ϝεσσα \> *κητοϜεσσα (cf. λαίθαργος\/ λήθαργος Fur. 338) of which the - ο- was lengthened. - Furnée 180 n. 6 points to the gloss ἄμυσσος κῆτος. Λάκωνες (s.s.v. βύθος), which shows that a crevice could be called κῆτος. - Ruijgh Lingua 28 (1971) derives the form from *κητοσ-Ϝεντ-.Page in Frisk: 1,846Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό) > κητώεσσαν
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καιετάεις — καιετάεις, εσσα, εν (Α) [καιετός] ο γεμάτος χάσματα, ρωγμές τής γης ή βάραθρα («Λακεδαίμονα καιετάεσσαν», Ομ. Οδ.) … Dictionary of Greek
κητώεις — κητώεις, εσσα, εν (Α) 1. (ομηρικό επίθ. τής Λακεδαίμονος) ο γεμάτος κοιλότητες, χαράδρες, σπηλιές («οἵ δ εἶχον κοίλην Λακεδαίμονα κητώεσσαν», Ομ. Ιλ.) 2. (για τον Δούρειο Ίππο) σπηλαιώδης, κοίλος, κούφιος 3. πελώριος, τεράστιος. [ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. Αβέβαιης … Dictionary of Greek
