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Θρᾷττα

*thratta

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What it meant

1. θρᾷττα · thraitta — Beekes

θρᾷττα [f.] name of a small sea-fish (middle com., Arist.). *DER Diminutive θρᾷττίδιον (Anaxandr.). *ETYM Acc. to Strémberg 1943: 86, properly “the Thracian”; see » Θρᾷξ. Otherwise, it could be a deformation of θρίσσα (s.v. » θρίξ), — [Beekes, s.v. θρᾷττα, p. 600]

2. Θρᾷττα · Thraitta — LSJ

3. θρᾷττα · thraitta — LSJ

a small sea-fish

a small sea-fish, Arist. GA 785b23, Antiph. 211, Mnesim. 4.41:—Dim. θρᾳττίδιον, τό, Anaxandr. 27.

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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