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melan · τό
ink, indigo, iris
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μέλᾰν · melan — LSJ
ink, Pl. Phdr. 276c; τὸ μ. τρίβων D. 18.258, cf. Herod. 5.66, etc.; μ. γραφικόν Dsc. 1.69; used of a drawing material capable of erasure, Procl. Hyp. 3.72.
μ. Ἰνδικόν indigo, Peripl.M.Rubr. 39.
iris of the eye, Arist. HA 491b21.
cornea, Gal. 14.772.
= αἰδοῖον, τὸ μ. τῷ μ. συναρμόσαι PMag.Par. 1.403.
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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