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χερμ-άς

chermas · ἡ

large pebble

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What it meant — LSJ

large pebble, stone, sling-stone, pebbles

large pebble or stone, esp. for throwing or slinging, sling-stone, τηλεβόλος Pi. P. 3.49; ὀκριόεσσα A. Th. 300 (lyr.); κραταίβολος E. Ba. 1096: of pebbles on the seabeach, A.R. 2.695 (cf. στία), AP 7.693 (Apollonid.); also in later Prose, D.H. 9.21, al.

II large block of stone

in later Poets, large block of stone, Lyc. 20,616, AP 7.371 (Crin.).

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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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