The corpus record

αἶρα

aira · ἡ

hammer, smithʼs, darnel, Lolium temulentum

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Where it lives

De Somno et Vigilia 1 · 3.36/10k
Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

αἶρα · aira — LSJ

hammer, smithʼs

hammer, αἰράων ἔργα smithʼs work, Call. Fr. 129.

= ἀξίνη, Hsch.

II darnel, Lolium temulentum

darnel, Lolium temulentum, Thphr. HP 1.5.2: in pl., Ar. Fr. 412, Pherecr. 188, Arist. Somn.Vig. 456b30, Herod. 6.100, etc.

In the wild

αἶραι · airai Aristotle, De Somno et Vigilia (DIORISIS sentence 56)
αἴρας · airas Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.1 (DIORISIS sentence 4702)
αἴρῃ · airēi Euripides, Trojan Women (DIORISIS sentence 185)

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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