explanatory
explanatory, τινος of a thing, Luc. Salt. 36; τὸ -κόν Procl. in Prm. p.534S.; σ. πρόβλημα dub.l. in Gal. 18(2).891.
The corpus record
σᾰφην-ιστικός
saphenistikos
explanatory
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What it meant — LSJ
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.