1. βύρσα · byrsa — Beekes
The corpus record
βύρσα
bursa
skin, hide
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What it meant
2. βύρσα · byrsa — Chantraine
3. βύρσα · byrsa — Frisk
4. βύρσα · byrsa — Frisk
5. βύρσα · byrsa — LSJ
skin stripped off, hide (prop. ox-hide, β. καὶ ἄλλα δέρματα Hdt. 3.110), Batr. 127, Arist. HA 531a11, etc.; βύρσης ὄζειν smell of leather, Ar. Eq. 892; βύρσης κτύπος of the drum, E. Ba. 513; wineskin, Luc. Lex. 6, Aristid. Or. 26(14).18.
skin of a live animal, Theoc. 25.238.
in contempt, of the human skin, ἡ κακὴ β. Herod. 3.80.
screen or perh. sail, Luc. Nav. 4.
In the wild
- βύρσα · byrsa Aristophanes, Knights (DIORISIS sentence 318)
- βύρσης · byrsēs Aristophanes, Knights (DIORISIS sentence 641)
- βύρσαις · byrsais Aristophanes, Knights (DIORISIS sentence 92)
- βυρσῶν · byrsōn Aristophanes, Peace (DIORISIS sentence 538)
- βύρσης · byrsēs Aristophanes, Wasps (DIORISIS sentence 31)
- βύρσας · byrsas Demosthenes, Against Phormio 10 (DIORISIS sentence 31)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. βύρσα (scan p. 296; entry #1334).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. βύρσα (scan p. 216; entry #1482).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. βύρσα (scan pp. 309-310; entry #1207).
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