The Egyptian glossary gives:"DROMOS. . A straight, paved avenue flanked by sphinxes."
I was reminded of "aerodrome" which I think is a WWI British term for a small airport, of which was a straight
paved surface suitable for aircraft to take off from and land on.
All the other words using the root that I can remember are circular courses.
AHD4 list the Greek root dromos as meaning "racecourse". If you race horses at a hippodrome, bicycles at a velodrome and aeroplanes at an aerodrome, what do you race at a palindrome?
Would you race dromedaries in a dromedrome?
Notice etymology for dromedary gives dromos = runner. The circle part does not seem implicit.
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pl. 3dar#ies 5ME dromedarie < OFr dromedaire < LL(Ec) dromedarius (camelus), dromedary (camel) < L dromas, dromedary (+ 3arius, 3ARY) < Gr dromas, dromos, a runner, running < dramein, to run < IE *drem3 < base *dra3, to run > Sans dr;mati, (he) runs6 an Arabian camel, esp. one trained for fast riding: see CAMEL, illus.
>what do you race at a palindrome?
yourself, most likely. palindromos is Gr. for 'running back again'
-joe (retrograde) friday
'running back again'
Yeah. AHD4 gives different meanings for dromos in its etymologies of hippodrome and palindrome.
The LSJ on Perseus gives race as the basic meaning of dromos:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?A2EF22005 Bingley
what do you race at a palindrome?
RACECAR
I looked up etymology of 'palindrome ' , and three sources said palin- = "again". Not sure how "back" gets into it.
"Roll me over, in the clover, and do it palin, pal in."
Referring to place, the basic meaning of the Greek palin is back, referring to time it means again.
http:// http://makeashorterlink.com/?N33C22C05
The verb palindromeo and various similar nouns mean run again or run back/backwards (
http://makeashorterlink.com/?P20E12C05).
Bingley
I have to wonder if there's a word for chopping liver again?
Would that be in order to produce twice-chopped liver or yet more chopped liver?
While out walking I remembered a medical use of "drome" -
the premonitory symptoms that precede the onset of an illness, such as the "shaking chill" that comes before the intense fever of malaria.