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The corpus record

κᾰλάμ-ῐνος

kalaminos

of reed, crate, like reeds

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Where it lives

  • Regnorum IV 1 · 0.58/10k
  • Histories 9 · 0.49/10k
  • Isaias 1 · 0.38/10k
  • Ezechiel 1 · 0.35/10k

What it meant — LSJ

of reed, crate, like reeds

of reed, οἰκίαι Hdt. 5.101; ὀϊστοί, τόξα, Id. 7.61, 65; χάραξ PSI 4.393.6 (iii B.C.); σῦριγξ, αὐλός, Ar. Fr. 719, Ath. 4.182d; κ. πλέγμα cheese-crate, Poll. 7.173: σκελετός, ἄπυγος, καλάμινα σκέλη φορῶν with legs like reeds, Pl.Com. 184.3.

II of cane, bamboo

of cane, bamboo, πλοῖα κ. Hdt. 3.98.

In the wild

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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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