1. σισύρα · sisyra — Beekes
The corpus record
σῐσύρα
sisura
thick, villous cloak (made of goat fir), fleece cloak
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Where it lives
- Ecclesiazusae 3 · 3.93/10k
- Wasps 2 · 2.06/10k
- Lysistrata 1 · 1.26/10k
- Frogs 1 · 1.1/10k
- Clouds 1 · 1.04/10k
- Birds 1 · 0.94/10k
What it meant
2. σισύρα · sisyra — Chantraine
3. σισύρα · sisyra — Frisk
4. σῐσύρα · sisyra — LSJ
goatʼs-hair cloak, used as a garment by day and a coverlet by night, Ar. Ra. 1450, V. 738, Ec. 347, Lys. 933, Av. 122; ἐν πέντε σ. ἐγκεκορδυλημένος Id. Nu. 10; σ. δερματίνη Pl. Erx. 400e; cf. σίσυρνα, σίσυς.—Tz. (ad Lyc. 634) distinguishes σισύρα as made ἐκ δέρματος ἐντρίχου from σίσυρνα = ἄτριχον δερμάτιον.
In the wild
- σισύραν · sisyran Aristophanes, Birds 120 (DIORISIS sentence 118)
- σισύραις · sisyrais Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 9)
- σισύρας · sisyras Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 420 (DIORISIS sentence 313)
- σισύραν · sisyran Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae (DIORISIS sentence 254)
- σισυρῶν · sisyrōn Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae (DIORISIS sentence 687)
- σισύρα · sisyra Aristophanes, Frogs 1458–1459
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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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