LOGOI

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ὑᾰλο-ειδής

ualoeides

like glass, glassy, transparent

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What it meant — LSJ

like glass, glassy, transparent, vitreous, crystalline

like glass, glassy, transparent, ὑγρόν vitreous humour, Gal. UP 14.6, cf. Id. 19.358; ἥλιος Philol. ap. Placit. 2.20.12 (also ὑελ- ib. 2.25.11); ὁ ὑ. χιτὼν ὀφθαλμοῦ the crystalline lens of the eye, Medici ap. Poll. 2.71.

2 topaz

ἡ ὑ. λίθος a precious stone, perh. topaz, Thphr. Lap. 30; ὑαλοειδέες . . τόπαζοι Orph. L. 280. [v. ὕαλος fin.]

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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