Ἔλινος

Notes (1)

1. Adler refers to the unedited Ambrosian Lexicon (551) as a comparandum.
   Apparently the headword is a variant of what is more commonly encountered as e(/linos, i.e. with a rough breathing. Perhaps quoted from Oppian, Cynegetica 4.262. In any event it means properly 'vine' or 'tendril' (cognate with the verb e)li/ssw: epsilon 871, epsilon 872) but can stand pars pro toto for the grape plant. It appears with a smooth breathing, and expressly in this sense, in the text of Eustathius, Commentary on Diogenes the Periegete 1153.11, 43, and with a smooth breathing and oxytone accent in Etymologicum Magnum 330.40.