The corpus record

σανδᾰράκ-η

sandarake · ἡ

red sulphide of arsenic, realgar

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What it meant — LSJ

red sulphide of arsenic, realgar

red sulphide of arsenic, realgar, Arist. HA 604b28, Plin. HN 34.177, Peripl.M.Rubr. 49; written σανδαράχη in Hp. Morb. 2.14 (but σανδαράκη Superf. 32), Dsc. 5.105, Gal. 17(1).834, Alciphr. 1.33, etc.

2 an orange pigment, yellow sulphide of arsenic, orpiment

an orange pigment made therefrom, Thphr. Lap. 40, 50. (Assyr. šindu arḳu ‘green paint’, i.e. yellow sulphide of arsenic, orpiment, cf. ἀρσενικόν.)

II bee-bread

bee-bread, Arist. HA 626a7.

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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