σπεῖρα, ἡ,
anything twisted or
wound, ποιεῖν τι οἷον σπεῖραν twist it into
a ball, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
2 plural,
coils or
spires of a serpent, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; πολύπλοκοι σ. [
Refs 5th c.BC+]: so in
singular, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
3 rope, cord, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; σπείραισι δικτυοκλώστοις with the net's meshy
folds, [
Refs 5th c.BC+];
ship's cable, [
Refs 1st c.AD+];
padded circle used by women carrying weights on their head, [
Refs 6th c.AD+]; so by Atlas, [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]; as a lamp-stand, ἀρτεμισίας σ. ἐπὶ τὸν λύχνον [
Refs];
round cushion, [
Refs 1st c.BC+]
4 a mode of dressing the hair, [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]
5 σ. βόειαι
thongs or
straps of ox-hide to guard and arm a boxer's fist, [
Refs 3rd c.BC+]
6 knot or
curl in wood, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
7 a kind of
cheesecake[
Refs 2nd c.AD+]
8 rounded moulding in the base of an Ionic or Corinthian column,
torus, [
Refs 1st c.BC+]
9 Geometry texts,
anchor-ring, tore, produced by revolution of a circle about a line in its plane but not passing through the centre, [
Refs 2nd c.BC+]
II Milit.,
tactical unit, in the Ptolemaic army, [
Refs 1st c.BC+]; used to translate the Roman
manipulus, [
Refs 2nd c.BC+]; κατὰ σπείρας,= Latin
manipulatim, [
Refs 2nd c.BC+]; later,
cohort, [
NT+1st c.AD+]
II.2 =θίασος,
religious college or
guild,
genitive σπείρης [
Refs]; Latin
spira, [
Refs]
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