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Μῄων

meon

bald money, spignel, Meum athamanticum

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Where it lives

Iliad 4 · 0.36/10k
Histories 3 · 0.16/10k

What it meant

1. μῆον · mēon — Beekes

μῆον [n.] Name of an umbellate, ‘bald money, spignel, Meum athamanticum’ (Dsc., Plin.). eVAR μεῖον (ν.1.. eETYM Carnoy REGr. 71 (1958): 96 connects mei- ‘to be refreshing’, which does not convince. Fur.: 2355 compares μαῖον “Trifolium arvense’, which would point to substrate origin. — [Beekes, s.v. μῆον, p. 997]

2. μῆον · mēon — Chantraine

μῆον : ou μεῖον n., nom de plante « baudremoine », voir sous μείων ? Autres vues douteuses de Carnoy, R. Ἐπὶ Gr. 71, 1958, 96. — [Chantraine, s.v. μῆον, p. 714]

3. μῆον · mēon — LSJ

bald money, spignel, Meum athamanticum

bald money, spignel, Meum athamanticum, Dsc. 1.3, Plin. HN 20.253; μ. Κρητικόν Zopyr. ap. Gal. 14.150, cf. μεῖον (C).

In the wild

Μηίων · Mēiōn Herodotus, Histories 1.7.3 (DIORISIS sentence 48)
Μηίονες · Mēiones Herodotus, Histories 7.74.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7519)
Μηίονες · Mēiones Herodotus, Histories 7.77.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7531)
Μῄονες · Mēiones Iliad 10.431
Μῄοσιν · Mēiosin Iliad 2.864
Μῄονας · Mēionas Iliad 2.866

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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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