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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unknown. It is uncertain whether this word is the origin of κραδάω (kradáō, “to swing, brandish”) or if it is the opposite. Traditionally connected to Latin cardō (“hinge, pivot”), but this remains hypothetical.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /krá.dɛː/ → /ˈkra.ði/ → /ˈkra.ði/
Noun
κρᾰ́δη • (krádē) f (genitive κρᾰ́δης); first declension
- (botany) quivering spray at the end of a branch, especially of fig trees
- (in general) branch, fig-branch
- fig tree
- Synonym: σῡκέᾱ (sūkéā)
- diseased formation of small shoots in trees
- scenic contrivance for exhibiting actors in comedy, sort of crane
- Synonym: μηχᾰνή (mēkhanḗ)
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Further reading
- “κράδη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κράδη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κράδη 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