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1 σκαπέρδα
Grammatical information: f.Meaning: name of a game at the Dionysia, at which two youngsters with the backs to each other tried to raise the other in high with a cord running through a pole (Poll. 9, 116, H.).Derivatives: σκαπερδεῦσαι (Hippon. 3, 3), after H. = λοιδορῆσαι, after Tz. An. Ox. 3, 351 (where σκαπαρδεῦσαι) = συμμαχῆσαι. From H. also: καπαρδεῦσαι μαντεύσασθαι, σκαρπαδεῦσαι κρῖναι; σκάπαρδος ὁ ταραχώδης καὶ ἀνάγωγος, λακκοσκάπερδον λακκόπρωκτον. To this: καὶ πᾶν τὸ δυσχερες σκαπέρδα λέγεται καὶ ὁ πάσχων σκαπέρδης.Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin] (V)Etymology: As the proper meaning of σκαπέρδα remains unknown (prop. of the cord?; cf. σκαπέρδαν ἕλκειν in Poll. and Osthoff BB 29, 267ff.), all explanations are quite hypothetic; s. Masson Hipponax 104 w. lit. -- The word with its variants is clearly Pre-Greek; Furnée 351, 393.Page in Frisk: 2,718Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό) > σκαπέρδα
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σκάπαρδος — Α [σκαπέρδα] (κατά τον Ησύχ.) «ὁ ταραχώδης καὶ ἀνάγωγος» … Dictionary of Greek
