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Βρῐτόμαρτις

*britomartis

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What it meant

1. Βριτόμαρτις · Britomartis — Beekes

Βριτόμαρτις [f.] epithet of Artemis on Crete (inscr., Str.), also a goddess or nymph on Crete, Dreros (Call. Dian. 190). 4PG(V)> eVAR Also Βριτόμαρπις, -μάρπεια (Crete); There is also a form Βρυτόμαρτις (Wahrmann Glotta 19 (1931): 170). *DER Βριτομάρτια [n.pl.] festival on Delos (inscr.). eETYM Acc. to Marinatos Apy. AeAt. 9: 7off. it belongs to the Aetolian DN Μάρπησσα, Wahrmann (lc.) held that -papmic is the … — [Beekes, s.v. Βριτόμαρτις, p. 288]

2. Βριτόμαρτις · Britomartis — Chantraine

Βριτόμαρτις est douteux, cf. s.u. Βριτόμαρπις ; enfin, lat. maritus; voir Pokorny 738. — [Chantraine, s.v. Βριτόμαρτις, p. 695]

3. Βρῐτόμαρτις · Britomartis — LSJ

name of Artemis in Crete, = virgo dulcis, acc. to Solin. 11.8 (but a nymph in Call. Dian. 190): gen. -εως, Str. 10.4.14; -ιδος, EM 214.23:—hence Βρῐτομάρτια, τά, festival at Delos, IG 11 (2).145.34. (Derived from βρίτον, = ἀγαθόν, acc. to EM 214.29.)

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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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