1. ξυστόν · xyston
ξυστόν 1 [n.] ‘shaft ofa spear’, usually ‘spear’ (Il, Hdt.,, E., X.). *ETYM From > ξύω as “what has been smoothened; smoothened stick” (scil. δόρυ). — [Beekes, s.v. ξυστόν, p. 1090]
The corpus record
ξυστόν
xuston
shaft ofa spear
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Where it lives
- Esdras I 2 · 2.43/10k
- Hecuba 1 · 1.4/10k
- Economics 1 · 0.56/10k
- Iliad 6 · 0.54/10k
- Siracides 1 · 0.54/10k
- Cyropaedia 2 · 0.25/10k
- Discourses 1 · 0.13/10k
- Histories 1 · 0.05/10k
What it meant — LSJ
2. ξυστόν · xyston
1. ξυστόν n. “Speerschaft’, gew. “Speer, Lanze’ (Il., Hdt., E., X. usw.). — Als „das Geglättete, geglättete Stange‘ (δόρυ) zu ξύω, 8.d. 2. Evorös m., auch -öv ἢ. “freie Promenade in einem Garten, einem Gymnasium usw., Säulengang, wo sich die Athleten (im Winter) üben’ (X., hell. u. sp. Inschr., Vitr., Plu., Paus.). Als Vorderglied in Evor-doxns m. “Vorsteher eines ξυστός᾽ mit Evorapx-Ew, -la (sp. Inschr. u. Pap.). — … — [Frisk, s.v. ξυστόν, p. 1313]
3. ξυσ-τόν · xys-ton
shaved, shaft, pole, shaft
shaved, sc. δόρυ) shaft, pole, e.g. spear-shaft, ξ. χαλκῆρες Il. 11.260 ; μακροῖσι ξ. 13.497, cf. 15.677 ; opp. λόγχαι (the head), Hdt. 1.52, cf. Plu. Rom. 20.
2 spear, lance
spear, E. Hec. 920 (lyr.) ; a horsemanʼs lance, X. Cyr. 4.5.58, cf. 7.1.33, Plu. Aem. 16 : pl. ξυστοί Jul. Or. 2.60a codd.
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v. ξυστός.
In the wild
- ξυστόν · xyston Epictetus, Discourses 3.16 (DIORISIS sentence 4601)
- ξυστὸν · xyston Euripides, Hecuba 1 (DIORISIS sentence 500)
- ξυστὸν · xyston Herodotus, Histories 1.52.1 (DIORISIS sentence 340)
- ξυστῷ · xystōi Iliad 11.260
- ξυστοῖσι · xystoisi Iliad 11.565
- ξυστοῖσι · xystoisi Iliad 13.497
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. ξυστόν (scan p. 1090; entry #4411).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ξυστόν (scan pp. 1313-1314; entry #4158).