The corpus record

βαῦνος

baunos

furnace

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What it meant

1. βαῦνος · baunos — Beekes

βαῦνος [m.} ‘furnace’, also = χυτρόπους ‘(stand for a) pot’ (Eratosth., Max. Tyr., etc.). VAR Cf. Bavviy κάμινος ἢ χωνευτήριον ‘furnace’ (H.). *ETYM Technical term without etymology. Fur.: 236 compares advoc κάμινος, Bavpia =Bvpiov, βᾶρις. BSaAAw [v.] ‘to milk (cows) (PI.). *VAR Mostly present (rare aorists βδάλας, βδήλαιο). Also βδέλλω (sch. Theocr. 11, 34) (cf. βδέλλα ‘leech’). *DER βδάλσις ‘suction’ … — [Beekes, s.v. βαῦνος, p. 255]

2. βαῦνος · baunos — Frisk

βαῦνος m. “Schmelzofen, Brennofen’, auch = χυτρόπους (Eratosth., Max. Tyr. u. a.); H. auch βαύνη " κάμινος ἢ χωνευτήgıov. — Teehnisehes Wort unbekannten Ursprungs. Vgl. zu βάναυσος. — [Frisk, s.v. βαῦνος, p. 259]

3. βαῦνος · baunos — Frisk

βαῦνος. Gleichartige Deutungsversuche bei Grosel} Ziva Ant.6 (1956) 236 und Van Windekens Orbis 15 (1966) 88f. — [Frisk, s.v. βαῦνος, p. 2176]

4. βαῦνος · baunos — LSJ

furnace, forge

furnace, forge, Eratosth. 24, Max.Tyr. 22.3, Asp. in EN 104.23; also, = χυτρόπους, Poll. 10.100:—in Hsch. also βαύνη, ἡ.

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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