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κέλῡφος

keluphos

husk or skin of fruit, skin of an onion, eggshell

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Where it lives

Wasps 1 · 1.03/10k
Discourses 2 · 0.27/10k

What it meant

1. κέλῦφος · kelyphos — Beekes

κέλῦφος [n.] ‘husk or skin of fruit, skin of an onion, eggshell’ (Ar. V. 545 [lyr.], Arist., Thphr., AP). *DER κελύφιον (Arist.), κελύφανον ‘id.’ (Lyc., Luc.), κελυφανώδης ‘like a shell’ (Thphr.); also κολύφανον: φλοιός, λεπύριον ‘bark; husk, skin., etc” (H.), perhaps with -o- after κολεός, etc. *ETYM For the neutral gender, which is rare in derivations in -φ-, cf. the synonyms σκῦτος, νάκος, Sépoc, etc. … — [Beekes, s.v. κέλῦφος, p. 717]

2. κέλυφος · kelyphos — Frisk

κέλυφος. Pisani Paideia 16 (1961) 50 wiederholt seine frühere (Fb. f. kleinas. Forsch. 3, 150) Zusammenstellung mit dem semantisch stark abweichenden alb. thelp “Kern einer Baumfrucht’. — [Frisk, s.v. κέλυφος, p. 2250]

3. κέλῡφος · kelyphos — LSJ

sheath, case

sheath, case,

1 pod, shell

in fruits, pod, shell, Arist. GA 752a20, Thphr. HP 2.4.2, etc.

2 sheath

in animals, sheath, Arist. HA 510a28.

b shells, encasing membrane

τὰ κ. τῶν ᾠῶν egg-shells, Id. GA 743a17; in fish, encasing membrane, Id. HA 568b9; τὸ περὶ τὰς γενέσεις κ. ib. 600b17.

c envelope

envelope, of a chrysalis, ib. 551a20, 601a6, 8, GA 758b17; of the chrysalis of the stag-beetle, Id. HA 551b19.

d shell

shell of crustaceous fish, ib. 549b25.

e hollow

hollow of the eye, AP 9.439 (Crin.).

3 husks, boat, shell, coffin

metaph., of old dicasts, ἀντωμοσιῶν κελύφη mere affidavit-husks, Ar. V. 545 (lyr.); of an old manʼs boat, which served as his shell or coffin, AP 9.242 (Antiphil.). [ῡ, exc. Opp. C. 3.503.] (Prob. cogn. with καλύπτω.)

In the wild

κελύφη · kelyphē Aristophanes, Wasps (DIORISIS sentence 397)
κελύφει · kelyphei Epictetus, Discourses 1.20 (DIORISIS sentence 1101)
κελύφει · kelyphei Epictetus, Discourses 1.23 (DIORISIS sentence 1184)

Where it came from

Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. κέλῡφος (scan pp. 717-718; entry #3056).
Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. κέλῡφος (scan p. 2250; entry #7367).

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