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χάννα

channa · ἡ

sea-perch, Serranus hepatus

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What it meant — LSJ

sea-perch, Serranus hepatus, cabrilla

a kind of sea-perch, Serranus hepatus or cabrilla, Epich. 67, Arist. HA 538a21, 591b6, Ael. NA 4.5; acc. χάνναν Speus. ap. Ath. 7.319b; acc. pl. χάνας (sic) BGU 844.17 (i A. D.):— also χάννος, ὁ, Numen. ap. Ath. 7.304e; = Lat. perca, Gloss.

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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