with a stripe of vegetable purple
with a stripe of vegetable purple (cf. ῥίζιον), POxy. 1051.3 (iii A.D.).
The corpus record
ῥιζό-σημος
rizosemos
with a stripe of vegetable purple
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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.