κύανος
kyanos
dark-blue enamel
Appears 3 times across Homer's epics.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
κύανος [ῠ], ὁ (later ἡ, v. infr. I.3, 7),
‹ All lexicon entries dark-blue enamel, esp. used to adorn armour, δέκα οἶμοι μέλανος κυάνοιο Il. 11.24, cf. 35; πτύχες κυάνου Sc. 143; also θριγκὸς κυάνοιο, of a cornice, Od. 7.87; so perh. in IG 1(2).367.7, 42(1).102.244 (Epid.).
2. lapis lazuli, κ. αὐτοφυής (opp. σκευαστός) Lap. 39, al., 5.91, etc. (perh. also in Phd. 113c); κ. ἄρρην, θῆλυς, Lap. 31: also an imitation made in Egypt, ib. 55.
3. blue copper carbonate, Cord. 2, 12.233 (ὁ and ἡ), Lex. 22; βαπτὴ κ. AP 6.229 ().
4. blue cornflower, HN 21.68.
5. a bird, perh. blue thrush, Turdus cyanus, HA 617a23, NA 4.59.
6. sea-water,
7. fem., the colour blue, in Mete. 162.4.
II. as Adj., = κυάνεος, Th. 438 (unless κυανός as in in GC 23.11, codd. Pl. l.c.): Comp. -ώτερος Anacreont. 16.11: Sup. -ώτατος Im. 1.6. [ῡ in dactylic verses, metri gr., cf. κυάνεος, etc.]