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καλαμαία

From LSJ

Ἓν οἶδα, ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα → I know only one thing, that I know nothing | all I know is that I know nothing.

Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book 2 sec. 32.

French (Bailly abrégé)

ας (ἡ) :
sauterelle, insecte.
Étymologie: καλαμαῖος.

Greek Monotonic

καλαμαία: ἡ (καλάμη), είδος ακρίδας, σε Θεόκρ.

Russian (Dvoretsky)

κᾰλᾰμαία: ἡ (sc. ἀκρις или μάντις) тростниковый кузнечик, предполож. богомол (Mantis religiosa L) Theocr.

Middle Liddell

καλαμαία, ἡ, καλάμη
a kind of grasshopper, Theocr.