The corpus record

ῥᾰν-ίς

ranis · ἡ

drop, drop, semen virile

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Where it lives

Sapientia Salomonis 1 · 1.45/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k
Ion 1 · 1.09/10k

What it meant — LSJ

drop, drop

drop, πέτρην κοιλαίνει ῥ. ὕδατος ἐνδελεχείῃ Choeril. 10, cf. Acus. 4 J.; ὑγραὶ ῥ. E. Ion 106 (anap.); δρόσου Id. Andr. 227, LXX Wi. 11.22; ῥ. βέβληκέ με a rain-drop, Ar. Ach. 171, cf. Arist. Mete. 349b31, 374a9.

2 semen virile

semen virile, AP 10.45 (Pall.).

3 drop, spot

metaph., drop, spot, τὰ πτίλα ἔχει ῥανίδας Ael. NA 17.23, cf. 38; αἱ τοῦ χρυσοῦ ῥ. Philostr. VA 3.48.

In the wild

ῥανίσιν · rhanisin Euripides, Ion (DIORISIS sentence 36)
ῥανίσιν · rhanisin Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis (DIORISIS sentence 964)
ῥανίσι · rhanisi Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris (DIORISIS sentence 345)
ῥανὶς · rhanis Septuaginta, Sapientia Salomonis 11

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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