The corpus record

ῥαν-τήριος

ranterios

of, for sprinkling, besprinkled, reeking

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What it meant — LSJ

of, for sprinkling, besprinkled, reeking, defilement

of or for sprinkling, πέδον ῥ. besprinkled, reeking, with blood, A. Ag. 1092; Pors. read πέδου ῥαντήριον (as Subst.) defilement; and, in the same sense, Dobree suggested the compd. πεδορραντήριον.

ῥαντήριον, τό, = περιρραντήριον, BCH 35.286 (Delos, ii B.C.), 54.98 (ibid., ii B.C.).

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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