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|Definition=[ρᾰ], ἡ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[red sulphide of arsenic]], [[realgar]], [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Historia Animalium|HA]]''604b28, Plin.''HN''34.177, ''Peripl.M.Rubr.''49; written σανδαράχη in Hp. ''Morb.''2.14 (but [[σανδαράκκη]] ''Superf.''32), Dsc.5.105, Gal.17(1).834, Alciphr.1.33, etc.<br><span class="bld">2</span> an [[orange]] [[pigment]] made therefrom, [[Theophrastus|Thphr.]] ''De Lapidibus'' 40, 50. (Assyr. šindu arḳu 'green paint', i.e. [[yellow sulphide of arsenic]], [[orpiment]], cf. [[ἀρσενικόν]].)<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[bee-bread]], [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Historia Animalium|HA]]''626a7.

|etymtx=-άχη<br />Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[sandarac]], [[red arsenic sulphide]], [[realgar]], [[red orpiment]] (Hp., Arist., Thphr. a.o.), [[bee-bread]] (Arist.).<br />Compounds: [[σανδαρακούργιον]] n. [[sandarac pit]] (Str.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">-ινος</b> [[sandarac-coloured]], [[bright red]] (Hdt. α. ο.), [[σανδαρακίζω]] to [[be sandarac-coloured]] (Dsc.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Orient. LW [loanword] of unknown source. Nehring Glotta 14. 182 reminds of the PlN [[Σανδαράκη]] (harbour-town on the Black-Sea). Acc. to a quite uncertain supposition by Uhlenbeck PBBeitr. 19, 327ff. from OInd. <b class="b2">*candra-rāga-</b> [[moon-coloured]] (?), which Cuendet (s. Mayrhofer s. [[candanaḥ]]) would like to change in a as hypothetic <b class="b2">*candana-rāga-</b> [[sand-coloured]]. -- The variation [[κ]]/[[χ]] points to a Pre-Greek word. Cf. on [[σάνδυξ]].