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κάγκελλος

kagkellos · ὁ

latticed barrier

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What it meant — LSJ

latticed barrier, balustrade, bar

= Lat. cancellus, latticed barrier or balustrade, masc. pl. POxy. 2146.12 (iii A.D.), Side 58, Hsch. (s.v. δρύφακτοι, sp. -ελοι); neut.sg. Sch. Theoc. 8.58, κάγκελον, bar, τοῦ δικαστηρίου Sch. Ar. Eq. 641, pl., ib. 675; gender indeterminate, sg., PRyl. 233.4 (ii A.D., sp. κάγγελλον), pl., IG 7.1681 (Plataea), cp. Lyd. Mag. 3.37.

II like a grating, criss-cross

a system of measure of capacity (gender indeterminate) μέτρῳ τῷ κ. ἀρτάβας ἕνδεκα τέταρτον POxy. 1447 (i A.D.), cf. 127.1 (vi A.D.), etc. —hence καγκελοειδῶς, Adv. like a grating, criss-cross, Hippiatr. 117 (v.l. -λλ-):

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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