The corpus record

κᾰλάσῑρις

kalasiris · ἡ

a long Egyptian garment

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Where it lives

Histories 4 · 0.22/10k

What it meant — LSJ

a long Egyptian garment, a Persian garment

a long Egyptian garment, with tassels or fringe at bottom, Hdt. 2.81, Cratin. 30; also, a Persian garment of like kind, Democr.Eph. 1; used in the Mysteries of Andania, IG 5(1).1390.17 (in form καλάσηρις):—title of a Comedy of Alexis. Cf. τρυφοκαλάσῑρις.

as pr. n., Καλασίριες, οἱ, a branch of the military caste in Egypt, Hdt. 2.164, etc.

In the wild

καλασιρίων · kalasiriōn Herodotus, Histories 2.166.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2752)
Καλασιρίων · Kalasiriōn Herodotus, Histories 2.166.2 (DIORISIS sentence 2754)
Καλασιρίων · Kalasiriōn Herodotus, Histories 2.168.2 (DIORISIS sentence 2762)
καλασίρις · kalasiris Herodotus, Histories 2.81.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2105)

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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