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Αἰθίοψ

aithiops · ὁ

Burnt-face

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Αἰθίοψ · Aithiops — LSJ

Burnt-face, Ethiopian, negro

properly, Burnt-face, i.e. Ethiopian, negro, Hom., etc.; prov., Αἰθίοπα σμήχειν ‘to wash a blackamoor white’, Luc. Ind. 28.

2 a fish

a fish, Agatharch. 109.

II Ethiopian, silver sage, Salvia argentea

Adj., Ethiopian, Αἰθιοπὶς γλῶσσα Hdt. 3.19; γῆ A. Fr. 300, E. Fr. 228.4: Subst. Αἰθιοπίς, ἡ, title of Epic poem in the Homeric cycle; also name of a plant, silver sage, Salvia argentea, Dsc. 4.104:— also Αἰθιόπιος, α, ον, E. Fr. 349: Αἰθιοπικός, ή, όν, Hdt., etc.; Αἰ. κύμινον, = ἄμι, Hp. Morb. 3.17, Dsc. 3.62:—Subst. Αἰθιοπία, ἡ, Hdt., etc.

2 red-brown

red-brown, AP 7.196 (Mel.), cf. Ach.Tat. 4.5.

In the wild

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Where it came from

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