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μεσο-ποτάμιος

mesopotamios

between rivers

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What it meant

μεσο-ποτάμιος · meso-potamios — LSJ

between rivers, Mesopotamia

between rivers, αἱ μ. (sc. χῶραι) Str. 15.1.18; ἥδε ἡ μ. ib. 30: esp. as pr. n. Μεσοποτᾰμία (sc. χώρα), ἡ, Mesopotamia, Plb. 5.44.6, Str. 11.12.2, etc.:—hence Μεσοποτᾰμίτης [ῑ], ου, ὁ, Luc. Hist.Conscr. 24.

II in the middle of the river

in the middle of the river, ἐν μ. νήσῳ Plu. Oth. 4.

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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