1. τόρμος · tormos — Beekes
The corpus record
τόρμος
tormos
socket, nave, peg
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Where it lives
- Histories 1 · 0.05/10k
What it meant
2. τόρμος · tormos — Chantraine
3. τόρμος · tormos — Frisk
4. τόρμος · tormos — LSJ
hole or socket, in which a pin or peg is stuck, Hdt. 4.72, D.S. 2.8; mortise, Inscr.Délos 504 A 7 (iii B. C.), IG 2(2).1672.175; nave of a wheel, like πλήμνη, Hsch., Phot.
tenon, Ph. Bel. 55.11, 64.15, Hero Bel. 95.5, Apollod. Poliorc. 178.2.
projecting peg or pivot, Hero Bel. 88.4.—Dim. τορμίον, τό, small projecting peg, Ph. Bel. 75.42.
In the wild
- τόρμον · tormon Herodotus, Histories 4.72.5 (DIORISIS sentence 4518)
Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. τόρμος (scan p. 1546; entry #6117). Root candidates: *pbarma-.
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. τόρμος (scan p. 1145; entry #8072).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. τόρμος (scan p. 1885; entry #5710).
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