1. σᾰπών · sapōn
The corpus record
σᾰπών
sapon
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What it meant — LSJ
2. σάπων · sapōn
soap, *saipjō, saippio
soap, τῷ Γερμανικῷ σμήγματι (καλεῖται δὲ σ.) Ruf. ap. Orib. 45.29.59, cf. Asclep. ap. Gal. 12.586, Aret. CD 2.13:—a Gallic invention (hair-dye) adopted by the Germans acc. to Plin. HN 28.191. [ᾱ, Seren.Sammon. 153.] (The Germanic forms (OHG. seifa, OE. sápe, etc.) come fr. prim. Germanic *saipjō, whence also Finn. saippio; cf. σήπων.)
Where it came from
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