ferrule, spike
ferrule or spike at the butt-end of a spear, by which it was stuck into the ground, Il. 10.153, Hdt. 7.41, Plb. 6.25.6, 11.18.4, AP 6.110 (Leon. or Mnasalc.), Sch. Th. Oxy. 853 v 30.
The corpus record
σαυρωτήρ
sauroter · ὁ
ferrule, spike
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Where it lives
- Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k
- Histories 1 · 0.05/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- σαυρωτήρων · saurōtērōn Herodotus, Histories 7.41.2 (DIORISIS sentence 7336)
- σαυρωτῆρος · saurōtēros Iliad 10.153
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.