1. μέτασσαι · metassai — Beekes
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μέτασσαι
metassai
lambs born later, i.e. of middle age
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What it meant
2. μέτασσαι · metassai — Chantraine
3. μέτασσαι · metassai — Frisk
4. μέτασσαι · metassai — LSJ
= μεταγενεῖς, of lambs, χωρὶς μὲν πρόγονοι, χωρὶς δὲ μέτασσαι, χωρὶς δʼ αὖθʼ ἕρσαι, i.e. the early-born, those born later, and the freshlings or late-born, Od. 9.221:—
also neut. τὰ μέτασσα thereafter, h.Merc. 125, cf. An.Ox. 1.280. (From μετά, after; cf. ἔπισσαι.)
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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