Ancient Greek

Noun

κράσπεδον • ‎(kráspedon) n ‎(genitive κρασπέδου); second declension

1. the edge, border, skirt, or hem of a thing, especially cloth
   • Theocritus, Collected Works 2.53
   • Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 374.A
   • Euripides, Medea 524
   • Aristophanes, The Wasps 475
   • Sophocles, Fragments 536
   • Euripides, Fragments 382
   • Xenophon, Hellenica 4.6.8
   • Euripides, The Suppliants 661
   • Xenophon, Hellenica 3.2.16

Declension

Descendants

• English: craspedophyte

References

• κράσπεδον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κράσπεδον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «κράσπεδον» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “G2899”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979