κάθετ-ος (kathetos)

What it meant

κάθετ-ος · kathet-os — LSJ

let down, perpendicular

let down, perpendicular, πρὸς τὴν γῆν Arist. Mech. 857b28; καθέταν is f.l. in Alc. 39: usu. Subst.,

1 perpendicular, plumb-line, vertically, perpendicularly, vertically below, perpendicular height

κάθετος (sc. γραμμή), ἡ, perpendicular, Arist. Mete. 373a11, Ti.Locr. 98b, etc., al.; plumb-line, Aen.Tact. 32.6; πρὸς τὴν κ. δʼ ἐμετρήθη Epigr. ap. Plu. Aem. 15; κατὰ κάθετον vertically, perpendicularly, Ph. Bel. 69.22, Heliod. ap. Orib. 49.13.1, Placit. 2.24.1, Apollod. Poliorc. 155.9; κατὰ κ. τοῦ ὀμφαλοῦ vertically below, Paul.Aeg. 6.50; πρὸς κ. Plu. Fac.lun. 2.938a; perpendicular height, τριῶν ἥμισυ σταδίων ἔχειν τὴν κ. Str. 8.6.21.

2 fishing-line

(sc. ὁρμιά), ἡ, fishing-line, Opp. H. 3.77, 138, AP 7.637 (Antip., v.l. καθέτης).

3 an animal let down into the sea

(sc. ἀμνός or βοῦς), ὁ, an animal let down into the sea as an offering to Poseidon, Lys. Fr. 227 S., cf. Phot., Suid.

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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