Dim. of >ἔδαφος 4, Alex.Aphr. in Metaph. 738.17; τῶν κατηγοριῶν τὰ ἐ. Dexipp. in Cat. 5.14, cf. Eust. 1532.63, Tz. H. 4.202, Sch. Pi. O. 5.1.
The corpus record
ἐδᾰφ-ιον
edaphion · τό
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What it meant — LSJ
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.