The corpus record

σίραιον

siraion

boiled wine

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Where it lives

Wasps 1 · 1.03/10k

What it meant

1. σίραιον · siraion — Beekes

σίραιον [n.] ‘boiled wine’ (Antiph., Alex. Nic.); also as adjective: σίραιος οἶνος, «Ὁ» *ETYM Perhaps derived from σειρόω (see » Σείριος). Fur.: 255 considers;this word to be Pre-Greek because of the element -atov. — [Beekes, s.v. σίραιον, p. 1386]

2. σίραιον · siraion — Chantraine

σίραιον : n. «vin cuit» (Antiph., Alex., Nic.; mais Ar. Guêpes 878 est généralement corrigé) ; aussi σίραιος οἶνος (Dsc., Aret.). — 1006 — Et. : Aucune possibilité de tirer le mot de σιρός. Peut-être issu de la famille de σειρόω « filtrer, tamiser », etc., que l’on trouvera sous Σείριος. — [Chantraine, s.v. σίραιον, p. 1026]

3. σίραιον · siraion — LSJ

new wine boiled down

new wine boiled down, Ar. V. 878, Antiph. 142, Alex. 127.8, 188, Nic. Al. 153 (where ῑ, written ει), Gal. 10.403; also of figs, Id. 13.8, 9:—also οἶνος σίραιος, Dsc. 5.6, Aret. CA 1.1; σίρινος, Eust. 1385.14.

In the wild

σιραίου · siraiou Aristophanes, Wasps 875 (DIORISIS sentence 631)

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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