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σκάρος

skaros1

fox

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What it meant

1. σκάρος · skaros — Beekes

σκάρος [m.] a fish. >oxaipw. σκάφη, σκάφος, etc. >TKAaNTW. oxagwpn [f.] ‘fox’ (Ael., H.). «ἢ» “ΑΚ καφώρη (Suid.) can be haplological for τῆς [o]kapwpne. *ETYM The interpretation as “Grubenwiachterin” (thus Frisk s.v.) and connection with σκάφη ‘grave’ is semantically unattractive. Further unclear. — [Beekes, s.v. σκάρος, p. 1395]

2. σκάρος · skaros — Chantraine

σκάρος, voir σκαίρω, LA + Η n σκάφη, σκάφος, voir σκάπτω. — [Chantraine, s.v. σκάρος, p. 1032]

3. σκάρος · skaros — LSJ

parrot-wrasse, Scarus cretensis

a sea-fish, the parrot-wrasse, Scarus cretensis, supposed by the ancients to chew the cud, Epich. 54, Arist. HA 508b11, Archestr. Frr. 13, 41 (where σπάρον is dub. cj.), PCair.Zen. 83.2 (iii B.C.), Gal. Vict.Att. 8. (Prob. from σκαίρω, Arist. Fr. 332.) [ᾰ, ll. cc.; ᾱ dub. in Philem. 79.20.]

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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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