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Σελευκ-ίς

*seleukis · ἡ

womanʼs shoe from Seleucia

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What it meant

Σελευκ-ίς · Seleuk-is — LSJ

womanʼs shoe from Seleucia

a kind of womanʼs shoe from Seleucia in Syria, Poll. 7.94, Hsch.

II a drinking-cup, so named after Seleucus

a drinking-cup, so named after Seleucus, Polem.Hist. 57, Inscr.Délos 443 B b 72 (ii B.C.), Plu. Aem. 33.

III ship

σ. τριήρης, a kind of ship, Id. Pomp. 77.

IV

the realm of Seleucus, OGI 219.4 (iii B.C.), 229.2 (iii B.C.), Str. 16.2.4.

2

Adj. of part of Cappadocia, Κ. τῆς Σελευκίδος λεγομένης App. Syr. 55.

V a bird which eats locusts, Rose-coloured Pastor, Pastor roseus

a bird which eats locusts, the Rose-coloured Pastor, Pastor roseus, Plin. HN 10.75, Gal. 8.397, Ael. NA 17.19, Zos. 1.56.3, 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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