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σέλινον

selinon

celery, Apium graveolens

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What it meant

1. σέλινον · selinon — Beekes

σέλινον [n.] ‘celery, Apium graveolens’ (1l.), also metaph. ‘vagina’ (Phot.); on the meaning, cf. Andrews Class. Phil. 44 (1949): o1ff. VAR Aeol. -vv- (gramm.). *DIAL Myc. se-ri-no. *COMP Often as a second member, e.g. πετρο-σέλινον [n.] ‘rock celery’ (Dsc.), taken over in Latin as petro-selinum, MLat. petrosilium > MoHG Petersilie; see Stromberg 1940: 33. *DER σελίν-ινος ‘of celery’ (late, rare), -itn¢g … — [Beekes, s.v. σέλινον, p. 1370]

2. Σέλινον · Selinon — Chantraine

Σέλινον subsiste en grec moderne. Et.: Terme emprunté ou venant du substrat. — [Chantraine, s.v. Σέλινον, p. 1015]

3. σέλῑνον · selinon — LSJ

celery, Apium graveolens, ‘’tis scarcely begun yet’

celery, Apium graveolens, Il. 2.776, Od. 5.72, Batr. 54, Ar. Nu. 982, Eub. 36 (pl.), Thphr. HP 1.2.2, CP 6.11.10, Nic. Th. 649; σελίνου σπέρμα Hdt. 4.71; it had curly leaves, v. οὖλος (B), and grew in marshy spots, Il. l.c., Thphr. HP 9.11.10; σελίνων στεφανίσκοι Anacr. 54, cf. Theoc. 3.23, AP 4.1.31 (Mel.); of the chaplets with which the victors at the Isthmian and Nemean games were crowned, Pi. O. 13.33; Κορίνθια σ. Id. N. 4.88, cf. I. 2.16, Com.Adesp. 153, D.S. 16.79; such chaplets were also

2

σ. ἄγριον,= βατράχιον, Dsc. 2.175;= σμύρνιον, Ps.-Dsc. 3.67;= ἐλεοσέλινον, ib. 64.

II pudenda muliebria

pudenda muliebria, Phot., cf. Sch. Theoc. 11.10. [ῐ only in AP 7.621.]

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Where it came from

  • Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. σέλινον (scan p. 1370; entry #5463).
  • Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. σέλινον (scan p. 1015; entry #7159).

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