σπάδιξ

A. bough or branch torn off, esp. palmbranch or frond,= βάϊς (cf. σπάθη 7), ς. φοίνικος Porph. Abst. 4.7: abs., Plu. 2.724a: pl. in Lat. spadica (Amm.Marc. 24.3.12); applied to other plants, e.g. ῥυτῆς Nic. Al. 528; ποΐσω ἀργυρέ[α]ν ς. Supp.Epigr. 4.61 (Centuripae, i (?) A.D., but perh. in signf.11).

2. as Adj., palm-coloured, i.e. bay, only Lat. spadix, Verg.G. 3.82, Gell. 2.26.9.

II. a stringed instrument like the lyre, with high notes, Nicom. Harm. 4, Poll. 4.59; condemned by Quintilian as effeminate, Inst. 1.10.31.

III. rind stripped from the root of the πρῖνος, Λέξεις Ἡροδότου in Stein Herodotus ii p.469 (Berol. 1871), cf. Hsch. s.v. σπᾶ.