ἄμεινον δε διὰ τοῦ ξ ξίμβαι

Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: `pomegranate (tree)' (Emp., Hp., Thphr.; Nic. also ῑ [metr. lengthening); also name of a Boeot. waterplant = νυμφαία (Thphr., Nic.); ξίμβαι ῥοιαί. (`streams, juice'?) Αἰολεῖς H.

Other forms: -α (Boeot.; Schwyzer 30), - έαι pl. (Halaesa; after συκέαι a.o.), σίβδη (Call., H.). σίλβια σίδια H.

Derivatives: σῐ́δ-ιον n. `pomegranate peel' (Hp., Ar., Thphr. a. o., σίλβια σίδια H.) with - ιο-ειδής 'σίδιον-like' (Hp.), - ιωτόν n. `medicine produced with σ.' (Paul. Aeg.), - όεις (Nic.), - ειος (Hdn. Gr.) `from the pomegranate peel'; Σῐδ-οῦς, - οῦντος (X. a. o.), - όεις, - όεντος (Euph. a. o.) m. place near Corinth.

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]

Etymology: Unexplained foreign word; cf. PN, e.g. Σίδη, Σίδυμα; also Alb. shegë `pomegranate' etc. in Bq and Schrader-Nehring Reallex. 1, 408 w. lit. S. also on σίδηρος. On the by-forms σίβδη and ξίμβαι also Brandenstein Minoica 80 ff. w. lit. Cf. on σίδηρος. -- Furnée (index!) accepts all forms ( σίβδη \< *σιϜδ-) as Pre-Greek, also ξίμβρα (286). (Unclear to me is ῥίμβαι ῥοιαὶ μεγάλαι. ἄμεινον δε διὰ τοῦ ξ ξίμβαι H.)

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ῥίμβαι· ῥοιαὶ μεγάλαι. ἄμεινον δὲ διὰ τοῦ ξ ξίμβαι, Hsch. (cf. ξίμβραι). [full] ῥίμβησις· ἀγκύλη τοῦ ὤμου, οἱ δὲ τὸν βραχίονα τοῦ ἱερείου, Id.