1. κάρδαμον · kardamon — Beekes
The corpus record
κάρδᾰμ-ον
kardamon
nose-smart
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Where it lives
- Cyropaedia 3 · 0.38/10k
What it meant
2. κάρδαμον · kardamon — Chantraine
3. κάρδαμον · kardamon — Frisk
4. κάρδαμον · kardamon — Frisk
5. κάρδᾰμ-ον · kardam-on — LSJ
nose-smart, Lepidium sativum, of which the seed was eaten like mustard, X. Cyr. 1.2.8, POxy. 1429.5, Ael. VH 3.39: pl., Ar. Nu. 234; κάρδαμʼ ἐσκευασμένα Eub. 36: metaph., βλέπειν κάρδαμα look sharp and stinging, Ar. V. 455: prov. of worthless things, ὅσῳ διαφέρει σῦκα καρδάμων Henioch. 4.2.
In the wild
- κάρδαμον · kardamon Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.2.11 (DIORISIS sentence 81)
- κάρδαμον · kardamon Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.2.11 (DIORISIS sentence 80)
- κάρδαμον · kardamon Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.2.8 (DIORISIS sentence 60)
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.