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The corpus record

ζέμα

zema · τό

fermentation

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What it meant — LSJ

fermentation, lewdness

fermentation, Heras ap. Gal. 13.1044: metaph., lewdness, LXX Jd. 20.6.

II boiling, the boil, the boil, boiled

boiling, ἐνδοὺς ζέμα bringing it to the boil, Heras ap. Gal. 13.548; δὸς ζέμα keep it on the boil, Orib. Fr. 113; ὄρνις ἀπὸ ζέματος a boiled fowl, Alex.Trall. Febr. 1.

2 that which is boiled, decoction

that which is boiled, decoction, Dsc. Alex. 7, Gp. 8.37.3:—also ζέμμα, LXX Ez. 24.13.

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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