The corpus record

μίσυ

misu

copper ore

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What it meant

1. μίσυ · misy — Beekes

μίσυ, -υος, -ἕως [n.] 1. ‘copper ore’ found in Cyprus (Hp.); 2. ‘ruffle, Tuber aestivum’, growing near Cyrene (Thphr.), cf. André 1956 s.v. misy. 4LW Anat.?> *ETYM Perhaps an adjective ‘brilliant’ borrowed from an Anatolian language; cf. Hitt. misriuant- ‘brilliant, from the root *meis- (Skt. misdti ‘to open the eyes’). See Neumann Kadmos 28 (1989): 94f. — [Beekes, s.v. μίσυ, p. 1009]

2. μίσυ · misy — Chantraine

μίσυ, -vos et τέως : n., minerai de cuivre trouvé à Chypre (Hp.), truffe du désert trouvée en Cyrénaïque (Thphr.), cf. André, Lexique s.u. misy. Est-ce 16. même mot? — 706 — — [Chantraine, s.v. μίσυ, p. 723]

3. μίσυ · misy — LSJ

a copper ore found in Cyprus

a copper ore found in Cyprus, Hp. Mul. 1.103, Gal. 12.241,15.32, Dsc. 5.100, cf. 74.

II truffle, Tuber aestivum

truffle, Tuber aestivum, growing near Cyrene, Thphr. Fr. 167.

Where it came from

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