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Ancient Greek
Etymology
The connection with Sanskrit केवट (kevaṭa, “pit, hollow”) must be rejected, and we cannot reconstruct Proto-Indo-European *kaiyr-t. The word καιετός (kaietós, “fissure produced by an earthquake”) may be a reshaping after ὀχετός (okhetós). According to Beekes, it is clearly a Pre-Greek word.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kai̯.á.daːs/ → /cɛˈa.ðas/ → /ceˈa.ðas/
Noun
καιᾰ́δᾱς • (kaiádās) m (genitive καιᾰ́δου); first declension
- (at Sparta) pit or underground cavern, into which state-prisoners or their corpses were thrown
Inflection
Further reading
- “καιάδας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “καιάδας”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- καιάδας in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN