The corpus record

χήν-ειος

cheneios

of, belonging to a goose, foie gras

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Where it lives

Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2 · 0.19/10k
Histories 2 · 0.11/10k

What it meant — LSJ

of, belonging to a goose, foie gras

of or belonging to a goose, κρεῶν βοέων καὶ χηνέων πλῆθος Hdt. 2.37; ᾠόν Arist. HA 558a22, cf. PCair.Zen. l.c.; χήνεια (sc. κρέα) Menipp. ap. Ath. 14.664e; στέαρ Dsc. 1.68.3, Sor. 1.56; χήνεια ἥπατα, a Greek dainty, foie gras, Ath. 9.384c (ἀρνεία shd. be read in E. Fr. 467).

In the wild

Χηνέα · Chēnea Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.9 (DIORISIS sentence 922)
Χηνέα · Chēnea Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.prologue (DIORISIS sentence 79)
χηνέων · chēneōn Herodotus, Histories 2.37.4 (DIORISIS sentence 1805)
χηνέων · chēneōn Herodotus, Histories 2.68.2 (DIORISIS sentence 2027)

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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