The corpus record

σανδάλ-ιον

sandalion · τό

sandals, horseshoe

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Where it lives

Judith 1 · 1.14/10k
Mark 1 · 0.91/10k
Josue (cod. Vat.) 1 · 0.75/10k
Acts 1 · 0.56/10k
Isaias 1 · 0.38/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant — LSJ

sandals

sandals, Hdt. 2.91 (sg.), Cratin. 131, Cephisod. 4, LXX Jo. 9.5.

2 horseshoe

horseshoe, σ. ὀνικά POxy. 741.10 (ii A.D.).

a surgical bandage, Heliod. (?)ap. Orib. 49.35.3, as v.l. for σανδάλιος, ὁ, which is found also in Heraclas ap. eund. 48.4.

III

v. σάνδαλον II.

In the wild

σανδάλιόν · sandalion Herodotus, Histories 2.91.3 (DIORISIS sentence 2157)
σανδάλιά · sandalia New Testament, Acts 12.8 (DIORISIS sentence 415)
σανδάλια · sandalia New Testament, Mark 6.7 (DIORISIS sentence 218)
σανδάλιά · sandalia Septuaginta, Isaias 20
σανδάλια · sandalia Septuaginta, Josue (cod. Vat.) 9
σανδάλια · sandalia Septuaginta, Judith 10

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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