violet-coloured
violet-coloured, ἱμάτιον Str. 15.3.19, cf. Plin. HN 21.27, Aq., Sm. Ex. 25.5:—Subst. ἴανθος, ὁ, or ἴανθον, τό, = ἴον, Hsch., Theognost. Can. 18.
The corpus record
ἰάνθῐνος
ianthinos
violet-coloured
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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.