The corpus record

ῥύμμα

rumma · τό

anything used for washing, soap, lye

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Where it lives

Republic 4 · 0.45/10k

What it meant

ῥύμμα · rhymma — LSJ

anything used for washing, soap, lye

anything used for washing, soap, lye, Hp. Morb.Sacr. 1, Ar. Lys. 377, Pl. R. 429e sq.

II sediment, dirt remaining from washing

sediment, dirt remaining from washing, Gal. 6.795, Sch. Nic. Al. 95, Hsch.

In the wild

ῥυμμάτων · rhymmatōn Plato, Republic 4.429 (DIORISIS sentence 2371)
ῥυμμάτων · rhymmatōn Plato, Republic 4.429 (DIORISIS sentence 2371)
ῥύμματα · rhymmata Plato, Republic 4.430 (DIORISIS sentence 2375)
ῥύμματος · rhymmatos Plato, Republic 4.430 (DIORISIS sentence 2375)

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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