ψεδνός

Connection with ψῆν (psên, “gall insect”) is not evident. Beside this adjective, we find synonymous ψηνός (psēnós, “bald-headed”), ψανός (psanós, “bald-headed”) and ψιλός (psilós, “with thin hair”). The word is probably Pre-Greek, like many other words with initial ψ-.

ψεδνός • (psednós) m (feminine ψεδνή, neuter ψεδνόν); first/second declension

1. thin, spare, scanty
2. bald-headed, bare, naked

• “ψεδνός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ψεδνός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ψεδνός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ψεδνός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ψεδνός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• 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