1. κάρπασος · karpasos — Beekes
The corpus record
κάρπᾰσος
karpasos
a kind of fine flax
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What it meant
2. κάρπασος · karpasos — Chantraine
3. κάρπασος · karpasos — Frisk
4. κάρπᾰσος · karpasos — LSJ
flax, Linum usitatissimum (or perh. L. angustifolium), D.H. 2.68, Sch. Ar. Lys. 736.
cotton, Peripl.M.Rubr. 41 (cf. Skt. karpāsas).
κάρπασον, τό, white hellebore, Veratrum album, Orph. A. 922; ὀπὸς καρπάσου Archig. ap. Gal. 12.445, Dsc. Alex. 13; sucus carpathi, Plin. HN 32.58; cf. ὀποκάρπασον, καρπησία.
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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