λιμνόστρεον
πρὶν τοὺς ἰχθῦς ἑλεῖν σὺ τὴν ἅλμην κυκᾷς → you're mixing the sauce before catching the fish | don't count your chickens before they are hatched | don't count your chickens before they hatch | first catch your hare | first catch your rabbit | first catch your rabbit and then make your stew | first catch your hare, then cook it | first catch your hare, then cook him
English (LSJ)
τό, edible oyster, which was kept in ponds by the sea (λίμναι), Arist.HA528a23, 547b11, GA763a30.
German (Pape)
[Seite 48] τό, die Auster, welche in eigenen Teichen am Meeresstrande gehalten wurde, Arist. H. A. 4, 4; vgl. Strab. III, 145; im plur. auch die Austerbänke, Arist. gen. an. 3, 11.
French (Bailly abrégé)
ου (τό) :
huître comestible, poisson.
Étymologie: λίμνη, ὄστρεον.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
λιμνόστρεον: τό парковая (съедобная) устрица Arst.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
λιμνόστρεον: τό, τὸ ἐδώδιμον ὄστρεον, τὸ ὁποῖον ἐτηρεῖτο καὶ ἐπολλαπλασιάζετο ἐντὸς λιμνοθαλασσῶν παρὰ τὴν θάλασσαν (λίμναι, Λατ. aestuaria, lacustria), Ἀριστ. π. τὰ Ζ. Ἱστ. 4. 4, 6., 5. 15, 14, π. Ζ. Γεν. 3. 11, 31.
Greek Monolingual
λιμνόστρεον, τὸ (Α)
εδώδιμο στρείδι που ζει μέσα σε λιμνοθάλασσες.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < λίμνη + ὄστρεον «όστρακο»].
