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καυνάκης

kaunakes · ὁ

thick cloak

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What it meant

καυνάκης · kaunakēs — LSJ

thick cloak

thick cloak, Ar. V. 1137; κ. πορφυροῦς Men. 972; said to be of Persian or Babylonian make, Arr. An. 6.29.5, Poll. 7.59, cf. Sch. Ar. l.c., Semus 20, PCair.Zen. 48.3 (iii B.C.), PHib. 1.121.11 (iii B.C.):—also καυνάκη, ἡ, PSI 6.605 (iii B.C.); cf. γαυνάκη (which is also found in codd. of Peripl.M.Rubr. 6):—Dim. καυνάκιον, τό, Zonar. (Assyr. gaunakka ‘frilled and flounced mantle’.)

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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