σαθρός

The etymology is uncertain. Maybe related to σήθω (sḗthō, “to sift, bolt”) or perhaps a contamination of σαπρός (saprós, “rotten”) with an unknown word. Furnée connects it with ψαθυρός (psathurós, “brittle”) and concludes that the word is from Pre-Greek.

σαθρός • (sathrós) m (feminine σαθρᾱ́, neuter σαθρόν); first/second declension

1. unsound, diseased
2. impotent
3. cracked (of a vessel)

• “σαθρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “σαθρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• σαθρός 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