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δαύχνα

dauchna

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What it meant

δαύχνα · dauchna — LSJ

= δάφνη, found only in compds. (cf. ἀρχιδαυχναφορέω) :—hence δαυχνοφόρος, = δαφνηφόρος, cj. in Alcm. 17: Δαυχναφόριος, ὁ, prob. epith. of Apollo in Cyprus, Ber.Sächs.Ges. 1908.3; cf. Δαυχναῖος, patron. fr. Δαύχνας, IG 9(2).1228.26. (Perh. akin not to δάφνη, but to δαῦκος.)

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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