1. κάνναβις · kannabis — Beekes
The corpus record
κάνναβ-ις
kannabis
hemp, Cannabis sativa
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Where it lives
- Histories 5 · 0.27/10k
What it meant
2. κάνναβις · kannabis — Chantraine
3. κάνναβις · kannabis — Frisk
4. κάνναβις · kannabis — Frisk
5. κάνναβ-ις · kannab-is — LSJ
hemp, Cannabis sativa, S. Fr. 243, Hdt. l.c., Dsc. 3.148, etc. (but κ. ἀγρία hemp-mallow, Althaea cannabina, ib. 149): in pl., -ίδες hemp-seed, Ephipp. 13.6; burnt and used to medicate vapour baths, Hdt. 4.75:—hence κανναβισθῆναι take a vapour-bath, Hsch. (Cf. OE. hænep ‘hemp’, Skt. śahás ‘a kind of hemp’, etc.; borrowed perh. fr. Ugro-Finnish, cf. Čeremissian keṅe, kiṅe ‘hemp’ and Syrianian pïš ‘hemp’.)
In the wild
- καννάβιος · kannabios Herodotus, Histories 4.74.1 (DIORISIS sentence 4529)
- κάνναβις · kannabis Herodotus, Histories 4.74.1 (DIORISIS sentence 4526)
- κάνναβις · kannabis Herodotus, Histories 4.74.1 (DIORISIS sentence 4527)
- κανναβίδα · kannabida Herodotus, Histories 4.74.1 (DIORISIS sentence 4530)
- καννάβιος · kannabios Herodotus, Histories 4.75.1 (DIORISIS sentence 4531)
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.