The corpus record

σχᾰδών

schadon · ἡ

larva of the bee

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What it meant — LSJ

larva of the bee, wasp

larva of the bee or wasp, Arist. HA 554a29, 555a8, 624a8.

II breeding-cell

breeding-cell of the larva, Theaet. ap. Sch. Theoc. 1.147.

III honey-cell, honeycomb

honey-cell, and in pl. honeycomb, Ar. Fr. 318.6, 569.3, Antiph. 275, Anaxandr. 41.53, Theoc. l.c., PCair.Zen. 354.8 (iii B.C.); so also in sg., σχαδόνα δεῖ πάντως φαγεῖν Euthycl. 1.

a throw of the dice, Hsch.

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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