The corpus record

σχοιν-ίς

schoinis1 · ἡ

rope, cord

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What it meant

σχοιν-ίς · schoin-is — LSJ

rope, cord

= σχοινίον, rope, cord, Theoc. 23.51.

2 wall-decoration

wall-decoration in form of a rope, Supp.Epigr. 4.453.17 (Didyma, ii B.C.); similar decoration of a silver cup, OGI 214.55 (ibid., iii B.C.).

v.l. for Σχοινῄς (q.v.), Lyc. 832.

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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