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
The corpus record
ὕνις
unis · ἡ
ploughshare
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What it meant — LSJ
ploughshare
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.