The corpus record

ῥούσιος

rousios

reddish

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What it meant — LSJ

reddish

reddish, Lat. russus, russeus, Dsc. 4.130 (interpol.), Stud.Pal. 20.245.18 (vi A.D.).

οἱ ῥ. the Red faction in the Circus, Lyd. Mens. 4.30: sg., τοῦ ῥουσσέου Tab.Defix.Aud. 242.53 (Carthage, iii A.D.); τοῦ ῥωσέου ib. 160.80 (Rome, iv/v A.D.); ῥόσεον Σιλουανόν ib. 237.23 (Carthage, i A.D.):—cf. APl. 16.386.

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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