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ὄρδειλον

ordeilon

ball of wool

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What it meant

1. ὅρδειλον · hordeilon — Beekes

ὅρδειλον = τόρδῦλον. 6pdpa [n.] - ἡ τολύπιη τῶν ἐρίων ‘ball of wool’, ὄρδικον' τὸν χιτωνίσκον. ΤΠάριοι ‘short frock’ (H.). «Ὧν eVAR Or <>, ? *ETYM Isolated in Greek. Taken as a verbal noun of Lat. drdior ‘to begin a web, start’, eg. by Pok. 60, which seems doubtful. The form ὠρδυλευσάμην: ἐμόχθησα ‘was weary, etc.’ (H.) also belongs here, which is from ὀρδυλεύω, deriving from "ὄρδυλος, -ύλη with a formation … — [Beekes, s.v. ὅρδειλον, p. 1149]

2. ὄρδειλον · ordeilon — LSJ

hartwort, Tordylium officinale

= τόρδιλον, hartwort, Tordylium officinale, Nic. Th. 841 (sed leg. τόρδειλον).

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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