κράβαττος

     κράβαττος

    v. l. κράββατος ὅ (макед.) ложе, одр, постель NT.

κράβαττος, ου, ὁ (mss. and edd. also κράβατος, κράββατος, κρέβαττος [Mk 2:3 v.l.]; a loanw., found also in rabb., but of uncertain origin and late in appearing [Phryn. 62 Lob.]. Acc. to Pollux 10, 35 in the form κράββατος in the comic poets Rhinto [III B.C.] and Crito [II B.C.]; so also TestJob [ms. P, κράβαττ-SV]; also Epict 1, 24, 14; Aesop, Fab. 413 H.; PLond II, 191, 16 p. 265 [II A.D.] κράββατος. Ostracon in Mélanges Nicole 1905 p. 184=Sb 4292, 9 and Moeris p. 58; 354 κράβατος. The form κράβακτος also occurs: PTebt 406, 19.—Am 3:12 Aq. On the form of the word s. B-D-F §42, 4; W-S. §5, 26a n.; Mlt. 244; Mlt-H. 102 [§41d]; Rob. 119; 213) mattress, pallet, the poor man’s bed Mk 2:4; 6:55. W. κλινάριον Ac 5:15. αἴρειν τὸν κ. Mk 2:9, 11f; J 5:8–11, 12 v.l. (cp. Lucian, Philopseud. 11 ὁ Μίδας αὐτὸς ἀράμενος τὸν σκίμποδα, ἐφʼ οὗ ἐκεκόμιστο, ᾤχετο ἐς τὸν ἀγρὸν ἀπιών ‘Midas himself took up the pallet on which he had been carried, made his departure, and went back to the field [i.e. to his task of viticulture]’). κατακεῖσθαι ἐπὶ κραβάττου lie in bed Ac 9:33. JKramer, APF 41/2, ’95.—DELG. M-M.

κράββᾰτος, ὁ, also [full] κράβᾰτος, Sammelb.4292.9, v.l.in Ev.Marc.2.4, [full] κράβακτος, v.l. in NT (cod. Alex.), PTeb.406.19 (iii A. D.) (whence [var] Dim. [full] κραβάκτιον, τό, PGrenf.2.111.32 (v/vi A. D.), and Adj. [full] κραβακτήριος, α, ον, PMasp. 6 ii 46 (vi A. D.)):—also [full] κράβακτον, τό, l.c.97 (vi A. D.), [full] κράβαττος, Arr.Epict.1.24.14, v.l. in NT (cod. W), Gloss., cf.

A grabattus, Virg.Mor.5:—couch, mattress, pallet, Rhinth.11, Crito Com.2; but condemned as un-Attic by Phryn.44; freq. in later Gr.,

ἐπὶ κλιναρίων καὶ κραββάτων Act.Ap.5.15

, etc., cf. Arr.Epict.l.c., PLond.2.191.16 (ii A. D.).

Grammatical information: m.

Meaning: `couch, mattras' (Rhinth., Criton Com., Arr.).

Other forms: κράβαττος, κράβατος, also - ακτος, - ον (from ` reversed writing'?, Schwyzer 317 n. 1).

Compounds: Comp. κραβατο-πόδιον = ἑρμίς, `leg of a bed' (sch.).

Derivatives: Diminut.: κραβάτιον (Arr., - άκτιον pap. V--VI^p), κρεβαττάριον (Ed. Diocl.), NGr. κρεββάτι. Adj. κραβακτήριος (pap. VI^p).

Origin: LW [a loanword which is (probably) not of Pre-Greek origin] Maced.

Etymology: Unclear κραβάτριος, perh. `chamberlain'? ( IPE 2, 297). Cf. Lat. grabātus (- attus), after Kretschmer Festschr. Bezzenberger 91 ff. Maced.-Illyr. from a word for `oak', *γράβος, which is seen in γράβιον (s. v.), which Fur. 126 n. 41 calls semant. arbitrary. On anl. κ- for γ- Schwyzer ZII 6, 242. Further Kramer, Arch. f. Pap. 45 (1995) 205-216; the word would have been adopted independently by Greeks and Romans (thus Fur. ib.). Hardly to γάβαθον, Fur. 352.

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κλινάριον, ου, τό (Aristoph., Fgm. 239; Epict. 3, 5, 13; M. Ant. 11, 18, 3; Artem. 2, 57 v.l.; PSI 616, 14; POxy 1645, 9; TestAbr A 4 p. 80, 17 and 31 [Stone p. 8]—B-D-F §111, 3) dim. of κλίνη bed (w. κράβαττος) Ac 5:15.—DELG s.v. κλίνω II. M-M.