βάλανος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[βᾰ], ἡ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[acorn]], [[oaknut]] Od.10.242, 13.409, Arist.HA603b31, Thphr.HP3.8.3: any similar [[fruit]], [[date]], Hdt.1.193, X.An.2.3.15, Arr.Ind.11.8; [[Διὸς βάλανος]] v. [[διοσβάλανος]], [[Διοσβάλανος]]; [[βάλανος μυρεψική]], [[Balanites aegyptiaca]], Dsc.4.157, cf. Thphr.HP4.2.1.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[tree]] which [[bear]]s βάλανοι, ib.6, Plb.34.8.1, [[LXX]] Ge.35.8.<br><span class="bld">II</span> from similarity of shape,<br><span class="bld">1</span> a sea [[shellfish]], [[barnacle]], Arist.HA535a24,547b22, Xenocr. ap. Orib.2.58.50.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[glans penis]], Arist.HA493a27,Ar.Lys. 413, Gal.10.381.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[air-vessel]] of a [[seaweed]], [[bladder wrack]], [[black tang]], [[rockweed]], [[bladder fucus]], [[sea oak]], [[cut weed]], [[dyers fucus]], [[red fucus]], [[rock wrack]], [[Fucus vesiculosus]], Thphr.HP4.6.9.<br><span class="bld">4</span> [[iron peg]], [[bolt pin]], Ar.V.200, Th.2.4, Aen.Tact.18.1,al.<br><span class="bld">5</span> [[fastening for necklaces]], Ar.Lys.410.<br><span class="bld">6</span> Medic., [[suppository]], Hp.Epid.1.26.ά, Aret.CA 1.1.<br><span class="bld">b</span> [[pledget]], [[pessary]], Hp.Mul.1.84.<br><span class="bld">7</span> [[ballot]] [[ball]], Arist.Ath.63.2. (Lat. [[glans]], Slav. želądi Lith. gὶle.)