The corpus record

εἴλημα

eilema

ds.

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What it meant

1. εἴλημα · eilēma — Frisk

εἴλημα ‘ds.’ (J., Poll.); εἰλετίας Art Rohr (Thphr.), εἰλητάριον “Umwindung, Rolle’ (Aöt.), εἰληδόν Adv. “in Windungen’ (AP). Von ἴλλω : ἰλλός “schielend’ (s. d.) mit mehreren Ableitungen; ἰλλάς f. "Strick, Seil’ (N 572; Chantraine Formation 351) mit ἐλλέξζει᾽ δεσμεύει, συστρέφει, ἀγελάξει H. (auch zu 1. Aw); unklar ἰλλάδας γονάς" Ἰἀγελειὰς καὶ συστροφάς H. (S. Fr. 70 und E. Fr. 837); wahrscheinlich zu 1. — Zu … — [Frisk, s.v. εἴλημα, p. 490]

2. εἴλημα · eilēma — LSJ

veil, covering, wrapper

veil, covering, wrapper, [Hdt.] ap. Stob. 3.28.18a.

= εἰλεός I, Hp. Flat. 9 (pl., dub.).

2 a coil, roll

a coil, σχοινίου S.E. M. 7.187; roll of a bandage, Gal. 18(1).809.

III arch

Archit., arch spanning intercolumniation, Arch.Anz. 19.8 (Milet.), CIG 2782.31 (Aphrodisias).

IV vault, cellar

vault, cellar, prob. in PLond.ined. 1821.387.

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.

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