The corpus record

φαδάσαι·

phadasai

to card

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What it meant

1. φαδάσαι · phadasai — Beekes

φαδάσαι [v.] + γνάψαι ‘to card’ (H.). *ETYM Read φαδειράσαι, derived from pad = trama, κρόκῃ, πηνίον ‘woof, weft’, whence the denominative verb φαδιάζειν; φάδι is the popular form of ὑφάδιον (see > ὑφαίνω). ode, φαέθων, etc. doc. — [Beekes, s.v. φαδάσαι, p. 1595]

2. φαδάσαι · phadasai — Chantraine

φαδάσαι : γνάψαι (Hsch, hapax) ecarders. Lire φαδ «ι»άσαι, cf. φάδι, irama, κρόκη, πηνίον (du Cange s.u.) dont φαδιάζειν siecere» (Id.) est le dénominatif; φάδι est la forme populaire de ὑφάδιον (voir s.u. ὑφαίνω). Le grec moderne conserve φάδι et ὑφάδιον « fil de trame ». — 1168 — — [Chantraine, s.v. φαδάσαι, p. 1188]

3. φαδάσαι· · phadasai· — LSJ

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