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καῖρος

kairos2 · ὁ

row of thrums

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What it meant — LSJ

row of thrums, ravel, make fast these threads

row of thrums in the loom, to which the threads of the warp are attached, ravel, Ael.Dion. Fr. 400, Phot.:—hence καιρ-όω, make fast these threads:

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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