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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.
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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?
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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.
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>what do you race at a palindrome?
yourself, most likely. palindromos is Gr. for 'running back again'
-joe (retrograde) friday
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'running back again'
Yeah. AHD4 gives different meanings for dromos in its etymologies of hippodrome and palindrome.
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The LSJ on Perseus gives race as the basic meaning of dromos: http://makeashorterlink.com/?A2EF22005 Bingley
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what do you race at a palindrome?
RACECAR
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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."
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