1. βάλανος · balanos — Beekes
The corpus record
βάλᾰνος
balanos
acorn, fruit like an acorn, date
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Where it lives
- Athenian Constitution 7 · 4.3/10k
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What it meant
2. βάλανος · balanos — Chantraine
3. βάλανος · balanos — Frisk
4. βάλᾰνος · balanos — LSJ
acorn, Od. 10.242, 13.409, Arist. HA 603b31, Thphr. HP 3.8.3: any similar fruit, date, Hdt. 1.193, X. An. 2.3.15, Arr. Ind. 11.8; Διὸς β. v. Διοσβάλανος; β. μυρεψική bān, Balanites aegyptiaca, Dsc. 4.157, cf. Thphr. HP 4.2.1.
tree which bears βάλανοι, ib. 6, Plb. 34.8.1, LXX Ge. 35.8.
from similarity of shape,
a sea shell-fish, barnacle, Arist. HA 535a24, 547b22, Xenocr. ap. Orib. 2.58.50.
glans penis, Arist. HA 493a27, Ar. Lys. 413, Gal. 10.381.
air-vessel of a seaweed, bladder-wrack, Fucus vesiculosus, Thphr. HP 4.6.9.
iron peg, bolt-pin, Ar. V. 200, Th. 2.4, Aen.Tact. 18.1, al.
fastening for necklaces, Ar. Lys. 410.
Medic., suppository, Hp. Epid. 1.4.1 [1.26.αʹ], Aret. CA 1.1.
pledget, pessary, Hp. Mul. 1.84.
ballot-ball, Arist. Ath. 63.2. (Lat. glans, Slav. želądῐ, Lith. gìlē.)
In the wild
- βάλανοι · balanoi Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..63 (DIORISIS sentence 760)
- βαλάνοις · balanois Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..63 (DIORISIS sentence 760)
- βαλάνῳ · balanōi Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..64 (DIORISIS sentence 780)
- βάλανον · balanon Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..64 (DIORISIS sentence 779)
- βαλάνῳ · balanōi Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..65 (DIORISIS sentence 783)
- βαλάνῳ · balanōi Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..65 (DIORISIS sentence 786)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. βάλᾰνος (scan p. 242; entry #1026).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. βάλᾰνος (scan p. 174; entry #1161).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. βάλᾰνος (scan p. 243; entry #963).