a black strong-smelling petroleum
Persian name for a black strong-smelling petroleum, found at Ardericca near Susa, Hdt. 6.119.
The corpus record
ῥαδινάκη
radinake · ἡ
a black strong-smelling petroleum
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Where it lives
- Histories 1 · 0.05/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ῥαδινάκην · rhadinakēn Herodotus, Histories 6.119.3 (DIORISIS sentence 6897)
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.