The corpus record

ἀδίαντος

adiantos

unwetted, not bathed in sweat, maidenhair, Adiantum Capillus-Veneris

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What it meant

ἀδίαντος · adiantos — LSJ

unwetted, not bathed in sweat

unwetted, ἀδιάντοισι παρειαῖς Simon. 37.3; ἀ. ἐξ ἁλός B. 16.122; not bathed in sweat, σθένος Pi. N. 7.72.

II maidenhair, Adiantum Capillus-Veneris

as Subst., ἀδίαντος, ὁ, maidenhair, Adiantum Capillus-Veneris, Orph. A. 915: ἀδίαντον, τό, Theoc. 13.41; ἀ. [τὸ μέλαν] Thphr. HP 7.10.5: pl., Plu. QConv. 2.614b.

ἀ. τὸ λευκόν, = τριχομανές, Thphr. HP 7.14.1, Dsc. 4.135.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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