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θῠεία

thueia · ἡ

mortar, cup, oil-press

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What it meant — LSJ

mortar

mortar, Ar. Nu. 676, Ra. 124, al., Lys. Fr. 62a.

2 cup, oil-press

cup of the cottabus, Pl.Com. 46.3.—Later θυία, θυΐα, Ph. Bel. 88.49, Dsc. 2.76.3 and 4; in the sense of oil-press, PFay. 42 (a) i 10 (ii A.D.): θυίη [ῐ], Androm. ap. Gal. 14.41: θυεῖον, τό, PLond. 2.193.23 (ii A.D.).

II

θύεια, v. θυία I.

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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