1. λιμν-ήσιον · limn-ēsion — Beekes
The corpus record
λιμν-ήσιον
limnesion
to build aX, to stagnate, put under water
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What it meant
λιμν-ήσιον, -ησία, -ηστις, -notpov, -ηστρίς (Dsc., Gal.). 7. Denominative verbs: λιμνάζω ‘to build aX, to stagnate, put under water’ (Arist.), with λιμνασμός ‘flood, inundation’, -αστής ‘surveyor of the inundation’, -aoteia ‘inundation works’ (pap.), -aoia ‘marshy ground’ (Arist.); λιμνόομαι [v.] ‘to build ad. (Thphr.,, Str.). *ETYM The primary formations λειμών and λιμήν, λίμνη show old ablaut in both stem and … — [Beekes, s.v. λιμν-ήσιον, p. 891]
2. λιμν-ήσιον · limn-ēsion — LSJ
= κενταύρειον τὸ μικρόν, Dsc. 3.7; = κενταύρειον τὸ μέγα, Ps.-Dsc. 3.6.
II
= ἀδάρκη, Damocr. ap. Gal. 13.1051.
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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