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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *dḿ̥-pedom, from *dem- + *ped-. Possibly cognate to Proto-Germanic *tumftiz (“ground around a building; foundation”). The second element is equivalent to πέδον (pédon) and cognate to Sanskrit पद (padá, “step, footstep, footprint”), Old Armenian հետ (het, “footprint, track”), English foot, Latin pēs and Hittite 𒁉𒂊𒁕𒀭 (pēdan).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dá.pe.don/ → /ˈða.pe.ðon/ → /ˈða.pe.ðon/
Noun
δάπεδον • (dápedon) n (genitive δᾰπέδου); second declension
- floor
Inflection
- πέδον (pédon, “ground, earth”)
Descendants
Further reading
- “δάπεδον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “δάπεδον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- δάπεδον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “δάπεδον”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- δάπεδον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften