σελήν-η, ἡ,
Doric dialect σελάνα [λᾱ] [
Refs 5th c.BC+],
Aeolic dialect σελάννα [
Refs 7th c.BC+]; compare also σεληναίη:—
the moon, σ. πλήθουσα the full-
moon, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; σ. ἀεξομένη, ὀλίγη κεράεσσι, [
Refs 4th c.BC+];
a moon's breadth, measure used by early astronomers, [
Refs 1st c.BC+]; νουμηνία κατὰ σελήνην, i.e. by the
lunar month, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰς ἡμέρας κατὰ σ. ἄγειν [
Refs 3rd c.BC+]; πρὸς τὴν σ. ὁρᾶν by
moonlight, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ ἐκ τῆς σ. νόσος,= σεληνιασμός, [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]; τὴν σ. καθελεῖν, of Thessalian witches, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
b month, δεκάτῃ σελήνῃ in the tenth
moon, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; πολλὰς σ. [
Refs]; τὰς ἡμέρας τῆς σ. [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
2 a moon-shaped wheaten cake, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
3 a round table, or
tripod, [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]
4 name of a plant, Ps.-[
Refs 1st c.AD+]
II as
feminine proper name,
Selene, the goddess of the moon (never in [
Refs 8th c.BC+] (σελάνα, σελάννα) from *σελάσνᾱ, compare σέλας.)
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