ταρσός

• ταρρός (tarrhós) — Attic

Has been compared with Middle Armenian թառ (tʻaṙ, “bar for drying grapes”), Old High German darra (“apparatus for drying fruits”), Swedish tarre (“frame for drying malts”), suggesting a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“to dry”). However, for phonetic reasons this is uncertain.

τᾰρσός • (tarsós) m (genitive τᾰρσοῦ); second declension

1. A frame of wickerwork, crate, flat basket, for drying cheese on; (generally) a basket.
   1. A mat of reeds, such as were built into brickwork to bind it together.
   2. A mass of matted roots.
2. : (of various broad flat surfaces)
   1. (anatomy) The flat of the foot (the part between the toes and the heel).
      1. The palm of the hand.
      2. The ankle.
   2. The rows of oars on the sides of ships.
   3. (zoology) The flat of the outstretched wing.
   4. The row of teeth in a saw.
   5. (anatomy) The edge of the eyelid and its lashes.

• Greek: ταρσός (tarsós)
• → New Latin: tarsus
  • → English: tarsus
• >? Swedish: tass (unlikely)
  • → Finnish: tassu

• “ταρσός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ταρσός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ταρσός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ταρσός 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