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melainis · ἡ
the black, sea-shell, from Melaenae
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μελαινίς · melainis — LSJ
the black, a name of Aphrodite at Corinth, Ath. 13.588c.
a bivalve sea-shell, used as a drinking-cup, Sophr. 101, Herod. 1.79; = πελωρίς, Xenocr. ap. Orib. 2.58.97.
μελαῖνις (sic) αἲξ καὶ βοῦς from Melaenae, Diosc.Gloss. ap. Gal. 19.120.
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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