The corpus record

ζειά

zeia · ἡ

one-seeded wheat, Triticum monococcum

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Where it lives

Odyssey 2 · 0.23/10k
Anabasis 1 · 0.18/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant — LSJ

one-seeded wheat, Triticum monococcum

one-seeded wheat, Triticum monococcum, used as fodder for horses, Hom. only in Od.; πὰρ δʼ ἔβαλον ζειάς, ἀνὰ δὲ κρῖ λευκὸν ἔμειξαν 4.41, cf. 604; in Il. ὄλυραι, e.g. ἵπποι . . κρῖ λευκὸν ἐρεπτόμενοι καὶ ὀλύρας 5.196, 8.564; ἀπὸ ὀλυρέων ποιεῦνται σιτία (sc. οἱ Αἰγύπτιοι), τὰς ζειὰς μετεξέτεροι καλέουσι Hdt. 2.36, cf. Eup. 14 D., X. An. 5.4.27, Str. 15.1.18, Asclep. ap. Gal. 13.257: in sg., ζειὰ ἁπλῆ Dsc. 2.89 (v.l. ζέα), = Gal. 6.517.

2 rice-wheat, Triticum dicoccum

rice-wheat, in sg., Thphr. HP 8.9.2, al. (where ὄλυρα is a cultural variety); ζ. δίκοκκος, Triticum dicoccum, Dsc. l.c. (v.l. ζέα), Gal. l.c.

In the wild

ζειὰς · zeias Herodotus, Histories 2.36.2 (DIORISIS sentence 1789)
ζειάς · zeias Odyssey 4.41
ζειαί · zeiai Odyssey 4.604
ζειαὶ · zeiai Xenophon, Anabasis 5.4.27 (DIORISIS sentence 2258)

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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