small pomegranate, knob, tassel shaped like a pomegranate
Dim. of ῥόα, small pomegranate: hence, knob or tassel shaped like a pomegranate, LXX Ex. 28.29(33), al., J. AJ 3.7.4.
The corpus record
ῥοΐσκος
roiskos1 · ὁ
small pomegranate
Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
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.