LEXICON OF ORIENTAL WORDS IN ANCIENT GREEK

ἀέντιον <Egyptian; Early Byzantine period>

👉 ἀέντιον – ‘an Egyptian myrrh’ (Hsch. α 1372).

⚠ Hsch. α 1372: ἀέντιον· Αἰγύπτιον σμυρνίον – “aention: Egyptian myrrh”.

🅔 An Egyptian word – Egyptian ꜥntyw ‘aromatic resin (usually identified as myrrh)’, Demotic ꜥnṱ ‘id.’.

📖 Data: CDD: s.v. ꜥnṱ; DG: 65; DLE: I, 71; GHÄD: 160; PL: 162-164; WÄS: I, 206f. Ref.: Fournet 1989: 75; Torallas Tovar 2004: 178; Wiedemann 1883: 8f.