[1] =
Synagoge delta295,
Photius delta611,
Hesychius delta1838 (contrast delta1840). The headword is feminine nominative singular of the adjective
diktuwto/s (derived from
di/ktuon 'net'; cf.
delta 1115), a form unattested prior to the Suda outside lexicography, although the feminine is found frequently in other cases in reference to a latticed door (with the feminine noun
qu/ra ('door') expressed or not; cf.
Etymologicum Magnum 513.5. Many instances of the word are Biblical; Latte in his edition of
Hesychius suggests
Judges 5.28
LXX, where the headword appears, although in the genitive case:
h( mh/thr *si/sara dia\ th=s diktuwth=s e)pible/pousa, "Sisara’s mother…peeping through the latticed [door]." (web address 1). In any event the adjective is often related to doors, windows or other parts of buildings. See Theodoret on
2 Kings 1.2
fwtagwgou\s diktuoeidw=s kateskeuasme/nas, a(\s diatrh/tous o)noma/zousin oi( polloi/; on
Ezechiel 41.16
quri/das diktuwta/s, toute/sti, diatrh/tous diktu/w| e)oikui/as.
2Likewise, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon (442). The headword here is masculine, but as there is no other attestation of a figurative sense that might be applied to humans (e.g. 'complex-minded') probably refers to inanimate things that happen to be grammatically masculine, as at Diodorus Siculus 18.26.6.