βανωτός
ἢν μή τις ὥσπερ σφηκιὰν βλίττῃ με κἀρεθίζῃ → may no one squeeze me and tease me like a wasp | may no one smoke me and tease me like a wasp | but if anyone annoys me and rifles my nest, they'll find a wasp inside | still if you wake a wasps' nest then of wasps you must beware
English (LSJ)
ὁ, a kind of A vase used as a measure, PSI4.428.12 (iii B.C.), 5.535.23 (iii B. C.), Callix.2:—Dim. βανώτιον, τό, PSI4.428.22 (iii B.C.).
Spanish (DGE)
-οῦ, ὁ
barril medida de capacidad ταρίχου PSI 428.12, cf. 66, 76, 81 (III a.C.), οἴνου PLond.1930.6 (III a.C.), ἐλαίου PSI 428.81, 535.23 (ambos III a.C.), Callix.2 (ap. crít.).
Frisk Etymological English
Grammatical information: m.
Meaning: vase used as measure (pap. IIIa, Callix.).
Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]
Etymology: Pre-Gr.; for the suffix -ωτ- s. Beekes, Pre-Gr. (the -ω prob. from -au-; the word then resembles βάναυσος).
Frisk Etymology German
βανωτός: {banōtós}
Grammar: m.
Meaning: Art Geschirr, das als Maß gebraucht wird (Pap. IIIa, Kallix.).
Derivative: Demin. βανώτιον (Pap.).
Etymology: Zum Ausgang vgl. das bedeutungsverwandte κιβωτός; sonst dunkel, offenbar (ägyptisches?) Fremdwort.
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