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χνοώδης

chnoodes

like fine powder, downy

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What it meant

χνοώδης · chnoōdēs — LSJ

like fine powder, downy

like fine powder, downy, Hp. Ulc. 17, Thphr. HP 1.10.3, Dsc. 4.68; μηλέαι prob. in Androt. Georg. ap. Ath. 3.82c (χνοωδίας codd.); of salt, Sor. 1.82; of arsenic, Olymp.Alch. p.75B.: Comp., Dsc. 2.175, Anon. ap. Suid.: Sup., Gal. 6.283, Sch. E. Or. 115. Adv. -δῶς Gal. 11.405.

II soft

ἀὴρ χ., soft, ‘muggy’, opp. λαμπρός, v.l. for νοτώδης Hp. Aër. 15.

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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