1 foreign woman
(sc. γυνή) foreign woman, A. Ag. 950, etc.
2 foreign country
(sc. γῆ) foreign country, ἐν ξένᾳ S. Ph. 135 (lyr.); ἐπὶ ξένης X. Lac. 14.4 ; ἐπὶ ξ. καταβιοῦν Phld. Rh. 2.146S., cf. Plu. Gen.Socr. 2.576c, etc.
The corpus record
ξέν-η
xene · ἡ
foreign woman
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What it meant — LSJ
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.