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καιρ-ικός

kairikos

timely, appropriate to certain times, seasons, seasonable

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What it meant

καιρ-ικός · kair-ikos — LSJ

timely

timely, ἀπαγγελίαι IG 3.769.

2 appropriate to certain times, seasons, seasonable

appropriate to certain times or seasons, seasonable, ἄνθη PMag.Leid.W. 24.1.

b belonging to the καιρός, chronocratory

Astrol., belonging to the καιρός or chronocratory, κ. χρόνοι Ἀφροδίτης Nech. ap. Vett.Val. 289.37.

c that vary in length with the season

Astron., ὧραι κ. hours of the kind that vary in length with the season, opp. ἰσημεριναί, Ptol. Alm. 4.11, 7.3, Tetr. 76.

3 temporal

Gramm., temporal, Eust. 17.3.

4

καιρικαὶ βαφαί, dub. sens. in Zos.Alch. p.246B., cf. p.228, 239, al.

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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