σκῠτᾰλ-ίς (skutalis)

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What it meant

σκῠτᾰλ-ίς · skytal-is — LSJ

stick

Dim. of σκυτάλη, stick, Hdt. 4.60.

2

= σκυτάλιον I.3, esp. as used by fishermen for drawing the net to land, Ael. NA 12.43.

3

= σκυτάλη I.2, J. AJ 3.6.3.

4

= σκυτάλη I.1, Aen.Tact. 22.27, D.S. 8.27, etc.

5

= σκυτάλη I.5, ἐλέφαντος, κασσιτέρου, Inscr.Délos 443 Bb 94,95 (ii B.C.).

6 engine for hurling fire

engine for hurling fire, Suid.

7 finger-bone

finger-bone (cf. σκυτάλη v), J. AJ 3.7.6, Poll. 2.144, Sor. Fract. 22, Gal. 2.250; of the neck, σ. τοῦ αὐχένος dub. in Id. 19.139.

8 ticket

= σκυτάλη I.4, ticket, Polyaen. 1.17.

9 handspike

= σκυτάλη I.7, handspike, Hero Bel. 86.11.

II withy, willow wand

= σκυτάλη II, Gp. 4.3.11: hence, withy, willow wand, Str. 17.1.50.

2

Dim. of σκυτάλη III, διὰ -ίδων ἐβενίνων λείων ἐξομαλίζονται τὰ σώματα Id. 15.1.54, cf. 55.

III small crab

small crab, of the καρίς kind, Hsch.

2 caterpillar

a kind of caterpillar, EM 720.45.

In the wild

σκυταλίδα · skytalida Herodotus, Histories 4.60.1 (DIORISIS sentence 4435)

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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