little fox
Dim. of βασσάρα I, little fox, Hdt. 4.192.
The corpus record
βασσάρ-ιον
bassarion · τό
little fox
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Where it lives
- Histories 1 · 0.05/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- βασσάρια · bassaria Herodotus, Histories 4.192.1 (DIORISIS sentence 5288)
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.