The corpus record

ἠθμός

ethmos · ὁ

strainer, colander

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Where it lives

De Respiratione 1 · 1.65/10k
Economics 1 · 1.61/10k

What it meant

ἠθμός · ēthmos — LSJ

strainer, colander, wine-strainer

strainer, colander, Schwyzer l.c., E. Fr. 374, IG 2(2).1416.11, 4.39.20, Gal. Nat.Fac. 1.15; esp. wine-strainer, Pherecr. 41; part of an eel-trap, Arist. HA 534a22; of the eyelashes, X. Mem. 1.4.6; prov., τῷ ἠθμῷ ἀντλεῖν, of fruitless toil, Arist. Oec. 1344b25.

ἠ. σχοίνινος,= κημός III, Cratin. 132, cf. AP 9.482.23 (Agath.).

III sluice, weir

sluice or weir (?), IG ΙΙ(2).287 A 75 (Delos, iii B.C.).

In the wild

ἠθμοῖο · ēthmoio Aristotle, De Respiratione (DIORISIS sentence 67)
ἠθμῷ · ēthmōi Aristotle, Economics 1344b (DIORISIS sentence 81)

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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