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λημνίσκος

lemniskos

woollen tape, bandage, compress

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What it meant

1. λημνίσκος · lēmniskos — Beekes

λημνίσκος [m.] ‘woollen tape, bandage, compress’ (Hell.), acc. to Varro (in Plin.) originally made of lime-bark. «Ὁ» *ETYM Utensil name in -ioxoc (cf. Chantraine 1933: 408), Syracusan acc. to H. (τὰς ταινίας ‘headbands’. Συρακούσιοι). Connection with the name of the island > Λῆμνοςξ Suggestion on Etruscan origin in Miller Phil. 78 (1923): 264f. — [Beekes, s.v. λημνίσκος, p. 904]

2. λημνίσκος · lēmniskos — Frisk

λημνίσκος m. "wollenes Band, Verband, Kompresse’ (bell.u.sp.), nach Varro bei Plin. urspr. aus Lindenbast. — Gerätname auf -ἔσκος (vgl. Chantraine Form. 408), nach H. syrakusanisch. Beziehung zum Inselnamen Anuvog liegt nahe; eine lose Vermutung darüber unter Annahme etruskischer Herkunft bei Müller Phil. 78, 264f. λῇν---᾿λῆςνος 117 λῆν “wollen’, λῆμα “Wille’ usw. s. Ad. — [Frisk, s.v. λημνίσκος, p. 1088]

3. λημνίσκος · lēmniskos — LSJ

woollen fillet, ribbon, ribbons, surgical bandage, pledget

woollen fillet or ribbon, by which chaplets were fastened, IG 2(2).1297.11 (iii B.C.), al., Plb. 18.46.12, Posidon. 9 J., Plu. Sull. 27, AP 12.123; of ribbons attached to birdʼs feet, Callix. 2; surgical bandage, Mnesith. ap. Orib. inc. 15.16; pledget, Heliod. ap. Orib. 50.49.1, Gal. 19.97, etc.

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