Ancient Greek

Noun

σφενδόνη • ‎(sphendónē) f ‎(genitive σφενδόνης); first declension

1. a sling
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 13.600
   • 680 BCE – 645 BCE, Archilochus, Collected Works 3
   • 408 BCE, Euripides, The Phoenician Women 1142
   • 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 1185
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.32
   • 408 BCE – 334 BCE, Antiphanes Comicus, Collected Works 55.19
   1. a sling as part of a crane used in unloading ships
      • SIG 241
      • A 46
      • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1010
2. anything fundiform:
   1. (medicine) a sling:
      1. for a disabled arm
         • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Joints 16
      2. a suspensory abdominal bandage
         • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On the Nature of the Woman 2.144
         • 50 CE – 150 CE, Soranus, Fasc. 48
   2. a headband worn by women, broad in front
      • Poll. 5.96
      • 1115 – 1195, Eustathius of Thessalonica, ad D.P. 7
   3. a bezel, a collet (the hoop of a ring in which the gemstone is set as in a sling; especially, the outer or broader part round the stone)
      • 428 BCE, Euripides, Hippolytus 862
      • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 359.e
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Physics 207.a.3
   4. a sclera (the white of an eye)
      • 100 CE – 200 CE, Pollux, Onomasticon 2.70
3. a slingstone (a stone, bullet, or other such missile or projectile thrown by a sling)
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 3.4.4
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 5.2.14
   1. a hailstone
      • 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 1125

Declension

References

• σφενδόνη in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press