περίδρομος

From a suppletive root of περῐτρέχω (perĭtrékhō, “I run about”); see, for example, περῐδρᾰμεῖται (perĭdrămeîtai).

περῐ́δρομος • (perĭ́dromos) m or f (neuter περῐ́δρομον); second declension

1. running round, encircling, round, circular
   1. wandering, going about, roaming
2. (passive voice) that can be run round; hence, standing apart, detached
   1. surrounded

περῐ́δρομος • (perĭ́dromos) m (genitive περῐδρόμου); second declension

1. that which surrounds, edge, rim
2. orbit, lap
3. (at Mytilene, in the plural) circuit-judges

• → English: peridromophile, peridromophily

• “περίδρομος, ον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “περίδρομος, ὁ, Subst.”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “περίδρομος1”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “περίδρομος2”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “περίδρομος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• περίδρομος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • circuit idem, page 132.
  • circumference idem, page 132.
  • gallery idem, page 353.
  • rim idem, page 715.
  • rimmed idem, page 716.

Either an ellipsis of περίδρομος δαίμων (perídromos daímon, “demon that roams around”), a supposed cause of gluttony, or borrowed from Ancient Greek περίδρομος (perídromos), referring to the drawstring on a bag of food.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /peˈɾi.ðɾo.mos/
• Hyphenation: πε‧ρί‧δρο‧μος

περίδρομος • (perídromos) m (plural περίδρομοι) (folksy)

1. abdominal pain
2. (chiefly in the phrase τρώω/κατεβάζω τον περίδρομο) too much food