ἀμανῖται
πενία μόνα τὰς τέχνας ἐγείρει → poverty alone promotes skilled work, necessity is the mother of invention, necessity is the mother of all invention, poverty is the mother of invention, out of necessity comes invention, out of necessity came invention, frugality is the mother of invention
English (LSJ)
[ᾰμ], ῶν, οἱ, A 'champignons', a kind of fungus, Nic.Fr.79, Gal.6.656, Eust.290.3, etc. ἀμάνορες· δοθιῆνες (Elean), Hsch.
German (Pape)
[Seite 115] οἱ, Erdschwämme, Nic. bei Ath. II, 61 a.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἀμᾱνῖται: [ᾰμ], ῶν, οἱ, εἶδος μυκήτων, «μανιταρίων», «μύκητας ἀμανίτας τότ’ ἀφεύσαις», Νίκανδρ. παρ’ Ἀθην. 61Α, Εὐστ. 290. 3, κτλ.
Frisk Etymological English
Grammatical information: m. pl.
Meaning: kind of mushroom (Nic.)
Origin: XX [etym. unknown]
Etymology: Perhaps derived from a place-name, e.g. the mountain ῎Αμανος in Asia Minor, but there were more (Koukoules Ep. Et. Byz. 17, 1948, 75; Chantraine R.Ph.1965, 201-3. For the suffix cf. ἀκονῖτον, βωλίτης. The gloss ἀμάνορες δοθιῆνες (`small abscess, boil') H. may be unrelated.
