The corpus record

ῥίσκος

riskos · ὁ

coffer, chest

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What it meant — LSJ

coffer, chest, travelling-trunk, portmanteau

coffer, chest, esp. for plate or money, Antiph. 130, Phylarch. 10J., Posidipp. 10, Phleg. Fr. 36.1 J., PLond.ined. 2312.11, PSI 4.428.45, cf. 411 (both iii B.C.), Phot.; travelling-trunk, portmanteau, PCair.Zen. 92.1 (iii B.C.).

II sarcophagus

sarcophagus, IG 14.1934f3.

III

ῥίσκοι· εἶδός τι μυῶν, Hsch. (Phrygian word acc. to Donat. ad Ter. Eun. 754.)

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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