ξυστός

From the root of ξύω (xúō, “to scrape, plane”) +‎ -τός (-tós, adjectival suffix).

ξῠστός • (xustós) m (feminine ξῠστή, neuter ξῠστόν); first/second declension

1. shaved, whittled with a knife or plane
2. scraped, shredded, grated
3. trimmed, cropped with scissors

From the adjective, in the sense of "smoothened floor".

ξῠστός • (xustós) m (genitive ξῠστοῦ); second declension

1. walking-place in the grounds of a private residence
2. (architecture) covered colonnade in a gymnasium, for winter exercise
3. meeting of athletes from various places to compete in sports

• → Latin: xystus

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