thrown from the fingers
thrown from the fingers, δ. μέλος, of the humming of a top, A. Fr. 57 codd. Str. (-δεικτον edd.).
The corpus record
δακτῠλό-δικτος
daktulodiktos
thrown from the fingers
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What it meant — LSJ
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.