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ὁρμιά

ormia · ἡ

fishing-line of horse-hair

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What it meant

ὁρμιά · hormia — LSJ

fishing-line of horse-hair

fishing-line of horse-hair, Pl.Com. 11, Antiph. 28, Arist. HA 621a15, S.E. M. 9.3, etc. [ῐ in Babr. 6.3 and in ὁρμιατόνος, ὁρμιηβόλος, qq. v.: ῑ metri gr. in dactylic verses, as Theoc. 21.11, AP 6.4 (Leon.).]

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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