The corpus record

Ἰνδικός

*indikos

Indian, pepper, indigo

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Where it lives

Esther 5 · 9.04/10k
On Hunting 2 · 2.2/10k
De Mundo 1 · 1.58/10k
Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
Esdras I 1 · 1.22/10k
Machabaeorum I 1 · 0.57/10k
Histories 5 · 0.27/10k

What it meant

Ἰνδικός · Indikos — LSJ

Indian

Indian: ἡ Ἰ. χώρη Hdt. 3.98: Sup. -ώτατος Philostr. VA 1.10:—fem. Ἰνδίς, ίδος, f.l. in Nonn. D. 17.377.

II pepper, indigo

Ἰνδικὸν φάρμακον a kind of pepper, Hp. Mul. 1.81; but, indigo (cf. infr. 2), PHolm. 11.2; also called ἰ. μέλαν ib. 9.8.

2 indigo, Indigofera tinctoria

the plant indigo, Indigofera tinctoria, Dsc. 5.92.

3 eye-salve

name of an eye-salve, Gal. 12.780, al.

In the wild

Ἰνδικόν · Indikon Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 38)
Ἰνδικῶν · Indikōn Herodotus, Histories 1.192.4 (DIORISIS sentence 1358)
Ἰνδική · Indikē Herodotus, Histories 3.106.2 (DIORISIS sentence 3690)
Ἰνδικῆς · Indikēs Herodotus, Histories 3.98.2 (DIORISIS sentence 3640)
Ἰνδικῆς · Indikēs Herodotus, Histories 4.40.2 (DIORISIS sentence 4323)
Ἰνδικῶν · Indikōn Herodotus, Histories 7.187.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8154)

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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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