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σκινδαψ-ός

skindapsos

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What it meant

1. σκινδαψός · skindapsos — Beekes

σκινδαψός [m.] name of a four-stringed musical instrument with thorn-like appendices (middle com. etc.), also designation for a senseless word (Artem., S. E. etc.); name of an ivy-like plant (Clitarch, cf. Dawkins JHS 56 (1936): 9f.). eVAR Without initial o-: κινδαψός (Timo, H.). DER σκινδαψιζόμενος (σφυγμός) ‘vibrating like a σ᾿’ (Gal.). 1354 σκινθαρίζω eETYM A foreign word like κιθάρα, βάρβιτος, and many … — [Beekes, s.v. σκινδαψός, p. 1404]

2. σκινδαψός · skindapsos — Chantraine

σκινδαψός : m., nom d'un instrument de musique à quatre cordes, surtout utilisé par des femmes (comédie moyenne}, dit aussi de sons ou de mots dépourvus de sens {(Artém., S.E.), cf. Higgins et Winnington-Ingram, JHS 85, 1965, 66 sqq; aussi nom d’une plante qui ressemble au lierre {Clitarch.), cf. Dawkins, JHS 56, 1936, 9 sq. ; dérivé, participe σκινδαψιζόμενος « qui résonne comme un skindapsos » (Gal.). Sans o- … — [Chantraine, s.v. σκινδαψός, p. 1039]

3. σκινδαψός · skindapsos — Frisk

σκινδαψός. Zur Begriffsbestimmung (wahrscheinlich eine Art Laute) Higgins und Winnington -Ingram JHSt. 85 (1965) 66f. — [Frisk, s.v. σκινδαψός, p. 2305]

4. σκινδαψ-ός · skindaps-os — LSJ

a four-stringed musical instrument

a four-stringed musical instrument, Anaxil. 15, Theopomp.Coloph. ap. Ath. 4.183a, cf. 14.636b.

2 a word without meaning, a ‘what dʼye call it’, ‘so-and-so’

a word without meaning, a ‘what dʼye call it’, ‘so-and-so’, Artem. 4.2, S.E. M. 8.133, Gal. 7.348, Herm. in Phdr. p.180 A., St.Byz. s.v. Γαληψός:—in mock-heroic form, νοῦν δʼ εἶχεν ἐλάσσονα κινδαψοῖο Timo 38.

3

= οἰκέτης, or name of an οἰκέτης, Gal. 8.662.

II an ivy-like tree

an ivy-like tree, Clitarch. 17 J.

III

κινδαψοί· ὄρνεα, καὶ ὄργανα κιθαριστήρια, καὶ Ἰνδοί, Hsch.

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