ψύλλος · psyllos — LSJ
= ψύλλα (q. v.).
2 flea
ψ. θαλάσσιος, sea-flea, Cyran. 45,78.
II
= τὸ παχὺ τὸ συνέχον τὸ τοῦ κάπρου αἰδοῖον, Hsch.
The corpus record
ψύλλος
psullos · ὁ
flea
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Where it lives
- Regnorum I 1 · 0.54/10k
- Histories 1 · 0.05/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- Ψύλλοι · Psylloi Herodotus, Histories 4.173.1 (DIORISIS sentence 5171)
- ψύλλου · psyllou Septuaginta, Regnorum I 24 (DIORISIS sentence 545)
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.