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ὕνις

unis · ἡ

ploughshare

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What it meant — LSJ

ploughshare

ploughshare, PPetr. 2p.133 (iii B. C.), PCair.Zen. 782 (a). 37 (iii B.C.), PStrassb. 118.15 (i A.D.), Corn. ND 28, Babr. 37.2, Plu. Rom. 11, Artem. 2.24, Gp. 2.2.3, Sm. 1 Ki. 13.20, PTeb. 406.19 (iii A.D.), PFlor. 134.3 (iii A.D.); also ὕννις, ὁ, Sch. Hes. Op. 425, Hsch.; ὕννη, ἡ, Aesop. 98b. (Plu. QConv. 2.670a derives the word from ὗς, from the hogʼs nozzling and rooting.) [ῠ, AP 6.104 (Phil.), 7.175, 176 (both Antiphil.), 280 (Isid.), Babr. l.c., Hdn.Gr. l.c.; Suid. is in error when he says τ

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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