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καπν-ίας

kapnias · ὁ

smoky, that had a smoky taste, made from the vine κάπνειος

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What it meant

καπν-ίας · kapn-ias — LSJ

smoky

smoky, nickname of the Comic poet Ecphantides, Sch. Ar. V. 151.

II

as Subst.,

1 that had a smoky taste, made from the vine κάπνειος

κ. οἶνος, ὁ, expl. by Hsch., Phot. as wine that had a smoky taste from having been long hung up in smoke, Pherecr. 130.6, Anaxandr. 41.71 (anap.), Pl.Com. 244: perh. rather to be expld. as made from the vine κάπνειος.

2 jasper

κ. (sc. λίθος), ὁ, a kind of jasper, Dsc. 5.142, Plin. HN 37.118.

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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