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The corpus record

ξῠλ-ίτης

xulites · ὁ

like wood, timber-bearing land

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What it meant

ξῠλ-ίτης · xyl-itēs — LSJ

like wood

like wood : name of a fish, Hsch.

II timber-bearing land

ξυλῖτις (sc. γῆ), ἡ, timber-bearing land, PPetr. 3p.223 (iii B. C.), PCair.Zen. 387.9 (iii B. C.), PLille 5.20 (iii B. C.) ; later ξ. χέρσος, opp. σπόριμος, PLond. 2.267.99 (ii A. D.), BGU 703.5 (ii A. D.).

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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