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κᾰλάϊνος

kalainos

like the κάλαϊς, shifting between blue and green

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What it meant — LSJ

like the κάλαϊς, shifting between blue and green, venetus

like the κάλαϊς, shifting between blue and green, κ. πτέρυξ, of the cock, AP 7.428.2 (Mel.); χρῶμα κ., of jasper, Dsc. 5.142; = venetus, Lyd. Mens. 4.30, Tab.Defix.Aud. 15.5, 16.13 (Syria, iii A.D., written καλλαεινου and καλαεινου) ; κ. λίθος, = sq., Peripl.M.Rubr. 39 (καλλεανός cod.); πλινθίς AP 6.295.6 (Phan.).

II glazed

κ. κέραμος glazed pottery made at Alexandria, EM 486.51, Suid.; κ. ὄστρακον Gal. 12.866; τὰ καλάϊνα PSI 4.396.9 (iii B.C.).

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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