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σκινδάριον

skindarion

an obscene gesture

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What it meant

1. σκινδάριον · skindarion — Beekes

σκινδάριον [n.] name of an unknown fish (Anaxandr. 27, 4). «ΡΟ» eETYM Since the meaning is unknown, etymologizing is useless. Nevertheless, formally the word seems Pre-Greek. oxivdapoc [m.] ‘an obscene gesture’ (H., Phot.). *DER σκινθαρίζω ‘make obscene gestures’ (H.). Σκιτᾶλοι ‘demons of lewdness’ (Ar., *ETYM The variation is typical of Pre-Greek. Cf. s.v. » σκινδακίσαι. — [Beekes, s.v. σκινδάριον, p. 1404]

2. σκινδάριον · skindarion — Frisk

σκινδάριον n. N. eines unbek. Fisches (Anaxandr. 27,4). — Für *oxırıöagıov von oxwis (Gal. v.1.) = σκιαινίς (s. σκιά) Fraenkel Nom. ag. 2, 177f. (m. Lit.); s. noch Hiersche Ten. aspiratae 216. — [Frisk, s.v. σκινδάριον, p. 1704]

3. σκινδάριον · skindarion — LSJ

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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