The corpus record

χήμη

cheme · ἡ

yawning, gaping

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What it meant — LSJ

yawning, gaping

yawning, gaping, Hsch.

II clam

clam, Philyll. 13, Arist. HA 547b13, Ael. NA 15.12; χ. τραχεῖαι, λεῖαι, PCair.Zen. 82.12 (iii B. C.), cf. Xenocr. Aq. 31.

2 measure

measure, Hp. Mul. 1.75, 78: there were larger and smaller kinds, Cleopatra ap. Gal. 19.769.

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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