[Meaning] that [which is] dry.
*skirro/n: to\ chro/n.
Written as such, with the double-rho, the headword is attested almost exclusively as the accusative form of
skirro/s, a substantive used by Galen (e.g. 11.736.11) and other medical writers for certain types of tumors and indurations (although for
skirro/s = 'chalk', see
sigma 625,
sigma 617, and under
epsilon 1263). Yet there is great variation in manuscripts between readings with double-rho and single rho (even here in the Suda, Adler reports, mss GM read
skiro/n rather than
skirro/n); so it is possible, if not probable, that the lexicographer has in mind a form of
ski=ros ('dry land', etc.),
skiro/s ('cheese rind', on which see
sigma 621), or some related term.
See also
sigma 566,
sigma 623,
sigma 624,
sigma 628;
Hesychius sigma892, sigma893, sigma962.
Adler cites
Lexicon Ambrosianum 546 by way of contrast.
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