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1 σφόνδυλος
σφόνδῠλ-ος, ὁ (ἡ, v. infr. 1b), [dialect] Ion. and later Greek [full] σπόνδῠλος (as in Hp. (v. infr.), Str.2.5.6, also in Pherecr.23 (codd.Clem.Al.), and some passages of Arist., asPA 654b16):—A vertebra, Ar.V. 1489(anap.), Pl.Ti. 74a;σύγκειται ἡ ῥάχις ἐκ σφονδύλων Arist.HA 516a11
, cf. PA 651b34; esp. one of the cervical vertebrae, Hp.Aph.3.26, cf. Arist. PA 686a21, 692a3: pl., backbone, spine, E.Ph. 1413 (so in sg., Pherecr.23); or neck, E.El. 841 (so in sg., LXX Le.5.8).b generally, joint, esp. in the scorpion's tail, Nic.Th. 798 (where it is fem.), 781, Hipparch.3.4.2.d a kind of mussel or oyster, Sor. 1.51, Gal.6.734;σ. θαλάσσιοι Edict.Diocl.5.10
; Lat. spondylus, Plin. HN32.60, 154.II from resemblance to vertebrae,1 one of the tambours in a column, Callix.1 ([etym.] σπ-), Milet.7.59, al. ([place name] Didyma), IG22.1668.43, 1672.310; not necessarily round, ib.11 (2). 161 A70 (Delos, iii B.C.); σ. μεγάλοι perh. drums of columns used as missiles, Ath.Mech.37.7.2 circular whorl which balances and twirls a spindle, Pl.R. 616c sq., Thphr.HP3.16.4, Plu.2.745f, Sor. 1.110, Poll.7.31, Edict.Diocl.13.5;σπόνδυλος Poll.10.125
(v.l. σφ-), Them.Or.32.356c.b the shape of that part of the terrestrial sphere which lies between the Equator and the Arctic Circle, Str.2.5.6.Greek-English dictionary (Αγγλικά Ελληνικά-λεξικό) > σφόνδυλος
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2 τροχοειδής
τροχο-ειδής, ές,A round like a wheel, circular, λίμνη, of the lake of Delos, Thgn.7, Hdt.2.170; of the lake of Gennesaret, J.BJ3.10.7; πόλις τ., of Athens, Orac. ap. Hdt.7.140; of leaves, arranged in a whorl, Dsc.3.27. Adv. - δῶς in a whorl, ib.103.Greek-English dictionary (Αγγλικά Ελληνικά-λεξικό) > τροχοειδής
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