Ποντικός: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ή, όν,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[Ponticus]], [[from Pontus]], [[Pontic]], [[Ποντικόν]] (''[[sc.]]'' [[δένδρεον]]), τό, perhaps [[Prunus padus]], [[bird cherry]], [[hackberry]], [[hagberry]], [[Mayday tree]], Hdt.4.23; [[τάριχος]] Ποντικός Cratin.40, cf. Gal.6.563; [[Ποντικὸς μῦς]] a kind of [[weasel]], [[marten]], Arist.HA600b13, 632b9; [[Ποντικὴ ῥίζα]] = [[γλυκύρριζα]] ([[liquorice]], [[licorice]], [[Glycyrrhiza glabra]]), Dsc.3.5; [[Ποντικὸν κάρυον]] = [[hazelnut]], Gal.6.355, cf. PCair.Zen.702.22 (iii B.C.); [[ῥέον Ποντικὸν]] = [[rhubarb]], Julianus Alex. ap. Alex.Trall.12.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[Ποντικός]] (''[[sc.]]'' [[μήν]]), ὁ, name of [[month]] at [[Gortyn]], GDI5031 (Riv.Fil. 58.475).