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τήθυον

tethuon · τό

ascidia, sea-squirt, tethea

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What it meant

τήθυον · tēthyon — LSJ

ascidia, sea-squirt, tethea

an animal of the kind called ascidia or sea-squirt, Arist. HA 531a18 (v.l. τηθέου), PA 680a5, al.; once in Hom., τηθεα διφῶν Il. 16.747 (= εἶδος θαλασσίων ὀστρέων, Sch.), cf. Arist. Fr. 304. (For the variation τήθυον: τήθεον, cf. πτύον: πτέον, etc.; tethea is pl. in Plin. HN 32.117, nom. sg. fem. ib. 151.)

II

τηθύα· τενάγη, ἃ προχέουσιν οἱ ποταμοί, Hsch.

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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