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σκῑρός

skiros

induration, callus, hard tumor

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What it meant

1. σκῖρος · skiros — Beekes

σκῖρος [m.] ‘induration, callus, hard tumor’ (medic.), ‘hard, scrubby ground, scrub’ (Tab. Heracl.). *VAR Also -pp-, σκῦρ-; σκῖρος [m.], -ov [n.] “crust, rind, cheese-rind, hardened grease’ (com.); also ‘hard, white matter, gypsum’ (sch. Ar. V. 921, Suid.), in this meaning also oxippa (Suid.), γῆ σκιρράς (sch. Ar. V. 921); γῆ λευκή ὥσπερ γύψος ‘white earth, like gypsum’ (Su.). . *DER σκιρρίτης [m.] … — [Beekes, s.v. σκῖρος, p. 1406]

2. σκῖρος · skiros — Chantraine

σκῖρος des mauvais garçons est condamnée par le fait que le mot est attesté déjà chez Hippon. Frisk suggère un rapprochement avec κίραφος, nom du renard, en évoquant ἀλωπεχίζειν - ἀπατᾶν (Hsch.} et en renvoyant à Schrader-Nehring, Reallezikon 1,337. — [Chantraine, s.v. σκῖρος, p. 1039]

3. σκῖρος · skiros — Chantraine

σκῖρος : m. cterrain inculte, couvert de fourrés, maquis » (Tables d'Héraclée 1,19,144 où il est distingué de δρυμός), attesté dans une variante d'Aristarque aux vers 332-333 d’IL 23; chez les médecins «induration, tumeur » ou «abcés dur » (Hp., médec.), avec parfois les graphies σκυρ- ou σχιρρ-, Cf. Érotian. s.u. σχυρωθῶσι, p. 82 Nachmanson; avec un sens plus général σκῖρος «dur», σκῖρον ἢ. «croûte» de fromage, … — [Chantraine, s.v. σκῖρος, p. 1039]

4. σκῑρός · skiros — LSJ

hard, cancerous

hard, of tempered iron, Sch. S. Aj. 651; cancerous, νοσήματα Them. Or. 8.110c: metaph., σκιροὺς θεούς (v.l. for σκληροὺς) Plu. Def.orac. 2.421d (ap. Eus. PE 5.5, σκιρροὺς ap. Theodoret.); σ. γέροντες dub. cj. for σκληροὶ in Longus 2.14.

5. σκῖρος · skiros — LSJ

hard, chalk) land overgrown with bushes, scrub

hard (perh. chalk) land overgrown with bushes, scrub, Tab.Heracl. 1.19; τῶν ξύλων . . τῶν ἐν τοῖς σ. ib. 144; = πυρρώδης (ῥυπώδης cj. Mein.) γῆ acc. to Philet. ap. Hsch.; σκ[ε]ίρα (leg. σκῖρα) . . χωρία ὕλην ἔχοντα εὐθετοῦσαν εἰς φρύγανα, Hsch.; σκ[ε]ῖρος· . . ἄλσος καὶ δρυμός, Id. (but opp. δρυμός, Tab.Heracl. ll.cc.); ἠὲ σ. ἔην, νῦν αὖ θέτο τέρματʼ Ἀχιλλεύς Il. 23.332, 333 as shortd. into one line by Aristarch. (here = ῥίζα, διὰ τὸ ἐσκιάσθαι acc. to Sch.T ad loc.).

2 hardened swelling, tumour, induration

hardened swelling or tumour, induration, Hp. Mul. 1.18 (τὸν σκῖρον [σκίρρον codd.] σκῦρον ὀνομάζει Erot. s.v. σκυρωθῶσι), Sor. 2.7 (σκύρου cod.), 9 (σκύρον cod.), 56, Gal. 11.736, Aret. CD 1.14 (σκίρρος codd.).

σκίρρος, = γύψος, Suid. (cod. A in marg.); also σκίρρα, = γῆ λευκή, ὥσπερ γύψος, Id. (written σκίρα Id. s.v. σκίρος) ; γῆ σκιρράς, Sch. Ar. V. 921.

6. Σκίρος · Skiros — LSJ

name of a μάντις, Philoch. 42.

Σκῖρος, ἡ, a town in Arcadia, St.Byz.; cf. Σκιρῖται, Σκιρῖτις.

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