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sknips · ὁ
a flea
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σκνίψ · sknips — LSJ
an insect found under the bark of trees, eaten by the woodpecker, Arist. HA 614b1, Sens. 444b12 (in both places with v.l. κνίψ, which is the form used by Thphr.), Plu. QConv. 2.636d: from its quick jump comes the prov., ὁ σκνὶψ ἐν χώρᾳ ‘a flea at home!ʼ Stratt. 70, Zen. 5.35:—an insect which attacks vines, Gal. 12.186. (Cf. Slav. sknipa ‘gnat’.)
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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