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βλίτυρον

blituron

a plant or drug or an imitation of ἃ gut-string

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What it meant

1. βλίτυρον · blityron — Beekes

βλίτυρον - ἐστὶ φυτὸν ἢ φάρμακον ἢ χορδῆς μίμημα ‘a plant or drug or an imitation of ἃ gut-string’ (EM 201, 43). 4?> *ETYM For the last part, see » βλίτυρι. BAtx(av)wdng [adj.] ‘clammy’; cf. LSJ Supp. «Ὁ» eVAR βλιχώδης (Hp.), βλιχανώδης (Diph.). βλίκανος (which must not be changed to *BAixavov): βάτραχον ‘frog’ kal βλίχαν *?’ (H.) *ETYM Minon RPh. 74 (2000): 263f. compares βλαχάν: βάτραχον and Artemis’s epithet … — [Beekes, s.v. βλίτυρον, p. 269]

2. βλίτυρον · blityron — LSJ

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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