*kegxrami/des: tou= su/kou kai\ tw=n e)law=n oi( purh=nes le/gontai kegxrami/des.
LSJ s.v.
kegxrami/s records the sense of "olive kernel" only in this passage. The sense "fig seed" is found in:
Hippocrates,
De Natura Mulierum 109;
Aristotle,
History of Animals 549a (describing the size of a small crawfish egg); and often in
Theophrastus and medical authors.
The singular is glossed in
Hesychius kappa1963 as "the interior of the seed of a fig", but elsewhere
Hesychius also uses the word to describe grains of wheat, suggesting it was becoming a generic word for "seed"; this is confirmed in Lampe s.v.
kegxremi/s: "millet seed, hence any fine grain". Nevertheless, the Suda (in an excerpt from John
Philoponus) still distinguishes between fig
kegxrami/des and olive
purh=nai at
kappa 416.
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