The corpus record

νᾶνος

nanos · ὁ

dwarf, one whose limbs are too small for his body, cheese-cake

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What it meant — LSJ

dwarf, one whose limbs are too small for his body

dwarf, Ar. Fr. 427, Arist. HA 577b27, Longin. 44.5; one whose limbs are too small for his body, Arist. PA 686b10.

II cheese-cake

cheese-cake, Ath. 14.646c. (Freq. written νάννος in codd.; cf. sq. [νανοφυής])

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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