νέπετος
From LSJ
ὡς αἰεὶ τὸν ὁμοῖον ἄγει θεὸς ὡς τὸν ὁμοῖον → how God ever brings like men together | birds of a feather flock together | how the god always leads like to like | as ever, god brings like and like together | as always the god brings like to like
English (LSJ)
ὁ, A = καλαμίνθη, Lat. word in Gal.14.43; cf. νέπιτα· ἡ καλαμίνθη, Hsch. (Lat. nepeta.)
Frisk Etymological English
Grammatical information: ?
Meaning: = καλαμίνθη (Gal.)
Other forms: Cf. νέπιτα ἡ καλαμίνθη H.
Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]
Etymology: νεπιτα was taken from Lat. nepeta, André, Lexique s.v. Fur. 357 is prob. right when he thinks that the Latin word was taken from a Greek *νεπετα, which will be Pre-Greek.
