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λείρ-ιον

leirion

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What it meant

1. λείριον · leirion — Chantraine

λείριον #0. «lis », surtout lilium candidum (H. Dem. 427, Hp., A.R., Thphr., etc.), désigne aussi le narcisse (Thphr., Dsc.). Dérivé : λείρινος «fait de lis» (Dse., Gal.) «qui ressemble à un lis» avec ἄνθος (Thphr. H.P. 3,18,11), λειριώδης « qui ressemble à un lis» (Thphr.); λειριόεις «qui concerne le liss (Nic. Al 406), mais chez Homère le mot signifie «qui ressemble au lis», dit de la peau (11. 13,830), de la voix … — [Chantraine, s.v. λείριον, p. 646]

2. λείρ-ιον · leir-ion — LSJ

Madonna lily, Lilium candidum

Madonna lily, Lilium candidum, prob. in Thphr. HP 9.16.6; = κρίνον, Dsc. 3.102, cf. h.Cer. 427, Hp. Mul. 2.179, A.R. 1.879.

II polyanthus narcissus, Narcissus Tazetta

polyanthus narcissus, Narcissus Tazetta, Thphr. HP 6.8.1, 7.13.4, Dsc. 4.158.

III autumn narcissus, Narcissus serotinus, narcissus

autumn narcissus, Narcissus serotinus, Thphr. HP 6.6.9; narcissus in general, ib. 1.13.2.

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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