Unknown, Great Dictionary of Word Origins 498.7-15
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Καισάρεια

, and

Kaisareia

are directly attested at Unknown, Great Dictionary of Word Origins 498.7-15. This passage was written ca. ca. 1125-1175 C.E. possibly in Constantinople. The Great Dictionary of Word Origins (Etymologicum Magnum) was the result of a major lexicographical project by a unknown grammarian of exceptional knowledge and skill around the mid-12th century at Constantinople. As a manual to explore the linguistic ancestry of a wide range of words, many recherché, the Dictionary both compiles information from earlier reference works, such as those by Stephan of Byzantium and George Choeroboscus, and adds new observations from the author’s own learning. This passage investigates the rare καιροσέων, an Archaic Greek word appearing only in the feminine genitive plural, which according to context meant “tightly woven.” The author notes the words phonetic similarity to Καισάρεια.

ΚΑΙΡΟΣΕΩΝ: Οἱ μὲν, τῶν κροσσωτῶν· οἱ δὲ, ἀπὸ τῶν καιρωμάτων· οὕτως δὲ καλεῖται καίρως καὶ καίρωμα, ἡ παραπλοκὴ τοῦ στήμονος, ἡ διαπλεκομένη ὑπὲρ τοῦ μὴ συγχεῖσθαι αὐτόν. Καὶ τὰς ἐρίθους καιρωστίδας εἶπε Καλλίμαχος, καὶ τὸ Δηλίων ὕφασμα, ὑδάτινον (καίρωμα). Πᾶσα λέξις ἀπὸ τῆς ΚΕ συλλαβῆς ἀρχομένη διὰ τοῦ ε ψιλοῦ γράφεται, πλὴν τοῦ καιρὸς καὶ καινὸς, Καῖσαρ, Καισαρεὺς, Καισάρεια.

[Ed. Gaisford 1848] [Minor corr. (spacing, spelling)]

KAIROSEON: Some (say it comes) from krossoton [“fringed garments”]; others from kairomaton [“woven garments”]. Thus the interlacing of the warp of the loom, the interweaving to prevent it from becoming tangled, is called kairos and kairoma. And Callimachus talks about epithous kairostides [“the woman-servants who weave”], and the textile of the Delians, the hydatinon (kairoma) [“the watery-transparent garment”]. Every word beginning with the syllable KE is written with the plain epsilon, except for kairos and kainos, Kaisar, Kaisareus, Kaisareia . [Trans. J. L. Rife] [The phrases quoted from Callimachus are frr. 295 and 356.]

Works Cited

[...] 498 7-15

[* Gennadius Scholarius, Introduction to Grammar 2.457.5-9

* George Choeroboscus, Parsings in Psalms p. 20.13-24

* Pseudo-Aelius Herodian, Parsings 63]

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[Callimachus, Hellenistic poet]

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