The corpus record

σχῖνος

schinos · ἡ

mastich, Pistacia Lentiscus

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Where it lives

Susanna (LXX) 1 · 13.09/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant — LSJ

mastich, Pistacia Lentiscus

mastich, Pistacia Lentiscus, Hdt. 4.177, Thphr. HP 9.1.2, LXX Su. 54, Sor. 1.121, al., Gal. 6.644; trodden on by goats, Theoc. 5.129, Babr. 3.4.

= σκίλλα, Epich. 160, Hp. Mul. 2.201 (cf. Gal. 19.145), Cratin. 232, Ar. Pl. 720, Fr. 255, Anaxandr. 5c, Thphr. CP 5.6.10, Sign. 55.

In the wild

σχίνου · schinou Herodotus, Histories 4.177.1 (DIORISIS sentence 5186)
σχῖνον · schinon Septuaginta, Susanna (LXX) (DIORISIS sentence 21)

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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