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σάλπη

salpe · ἡ

saupe, Box salpa

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What it meant — LSJ

saupe, Box salpa

a sea-fish, the saupe, Box salpa, Epich. 63, Arist. HA 543a8, al. (ὃν καὶ βοῦν [leg. βῶκα] καλοῦσιν, Hsch.): also σάλπης, ὁ, Archipp. 19; σάλπος is v.l. in Arist. HA 534a16; σάρπη, ib. 534a9, 621b7; σάλπιγξ, ib. 543a8.

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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