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The corpus record

λίγδος

ligdos · ὁ

mortar, clay mould, lye

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What it meant

λίγδος · ligdos — LSJ

mortar

= θυεία, mortar, Nic. Th. 589, 618, cf. S. Fr. 35, and ἴγδις.

II clay mould

clay mould, Poll. 10.189, Ael.Dion. Fr. 249.

III lye

lye, used as soap, Eust. 1229.27: so in Hsch., λίγδα· ἡ ἀκόνη, καὶ ἡ κονία.

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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