little root, vegetable
Dim. of ῥίζα, little root, Ar. Av. 654, Antiph. 45, Thphr. CP 2.18.2, HP 4.2.3, etc.; πορφύρα ῥιζίου vegetable purple (cf. ῥίζινος), POxy. 1051.13 (iii A.D.).
The corpus record
ῥίζ-ιον
rizion · τό
little root
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What it meant — LSJ
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.