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ῥῠάς

ruas · ὁ

fluid, flaccid, flabby

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What it meant — LSJ

fluid, flaccid, flabby

fluid, flaccid, flabby, ῥυάδος σώματος γενομένου Arist. PA 668b7.

II falling off, that is shed, that sheds its grapes

falling off, ῥ. θρίξ hair that is shed, Id. Pr. 898a32; ῥ. ἄμπελος a vine that sheds its grapes, Thphr. HP 4.14.6 (cod. Urb., v.l. ῥοάς), Gp. 5.39.1.

III that go in shoals with the currents

as Subst., ῥῠάδες, οἱ, fishes that go in shoals with the currents, like herrings, Arist. HA 534a27, 543b14, Ael. NA 9.46, al.

2 a disease of the eye causing a continual weeping discharge

ῥῠάς, ἡ, a disease of the eye causing a continual weeping discharge, Cels. 7.7.4, Gal. 10.1002.

3 urinary fistula

urinary fistula, Heliod. ap. Orib. 45.7.5, 50.4 tit., Aret. SD 2.4 (ῥοι- codd.).

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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