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ψώρ-α

psora · ἡ

itch, mange, scurvy

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Where it lives

  • Philebus 2 · 1.13/10k
  • Leviticus 1 · 0.53/10k
  • Deuteronomium 1 · 0.45/10k
  • Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant — LSJ

itch, mange, scurvy

itch, mange, scurvy, of men and beasts, Hdt. 4.90, Pl. Phlb. 46a, Hermipp. 63.7 (hex.), Phryn.Com. 26 (dub.); ἵππων Plb. 3.88.1; βοσκημάτων Thphr. HP 9.9.4; τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς ἐν ψώρᾳ συνεχομένους Phld. Rh. 2.143 S.; called by Suid. κνησμονή (fr. κνάω to scratch): pl., Pap. in Stud.Ital. 12(1935).94 (iii A. D.); ψώρα ἀγρία, of a malignant kind, LXX Le. 21.20.

2

metaph., ψ. περὶ τὰς αἱρέσεις Gal. 8.148.

II a disease of trees, scab, Cladosporium herbarum

a disease of trees, scab, Cladosporium herbarum, esp. of fig-trees, when they are overgrown with moss, Thphr. HP 4.14.3, etc.; also of the olive, Hp. Nat.Mul. 79, Mul. 2.117; cf. λειχήν.

III a moth

a moth, = φάλαινα, Sch. Nic. Th. 760.

In the wild

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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