{
    "meta": {
        "serviceProvider": {
            "name": "Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanties, TELOTA - IT\/DH",
            "link": "https:\/\/www.bbaw.de\/en\/bbaw-digital\/telota"
        },
        "dataProvider": {
            "name": "Classical Language Dictionary",
            "link": "https:\/\/cld.bbaw.de"
        }
    },
    "query": {
        "self": "https:\/\/cld.bbaw.de\/api\/dictionary\/lemma\/%CF%88%CE%B1%CC%81%CE%BC%CE%BC%CE%BF%CF%82?language=grc&options=case-sensitive",
        "searchDate": "2026-04-15 03:00:07",
        "searchFor": "lemma",
        "searchTerm": "ψάμμος",
        "language": "GRC",
        "options": {
            "strict": true,
            "case-sensitive": true,
            "regex": false,
            "simplified": false
        }
    },
    "data": [
        {
            "lemma": "ψάμμος",
            "meanings": 1,
            "language": "grc",
            "descriptions": [
                {
                    "dictionary": "Bailly",
                    "reference": "Bailly 2020 Hugo Chávez Gérard Gréco, André Charbonnet, Mark De Wilde, Bernard Maréchal & contributeurs \/ Licence Creative Commons Attribution - Pas d'Utilisation Commerciale - Pas de Modification — « CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 »",
                    "source": "https:\/\/bailly.app\/%C3%A0-propos",
                    "description": "<b>ου (ἡ) :<\/b> sable, OD. <i>12, 243 ;<\/i> HDT. <i>8, 71, etc<\/i>. ESCHL. <i>Pr. 573 ;<\/i> PLUT. <i>M. 982<\/i> b ; LUC. <i>Dips. 1, Anach. 27 ; au plur<\/i>. grains de sable, SEXT. <i>P. 1, 130 ; particul. pour marquer l’idée d’une quantité infinie,<\/i> ORACL. (HDT. <i>1, 47), etc. ; d’une chose sans valeur,<\/i> SPT. <i>Sap. 7, 10, etc<\/i>.<br\/><i>particul<\/i>. le sable du désert (de Libye), HDT. <i>3, 25 ; 4, 173<\/i>.<p style='color:darkgreen'>➳ ὁ ψ. ARCHIM.<\/p><p style='color:darkblue'><b>Étym<\/b>. <i>p.-ê. emprunt à un substrat pré-indo-europ. ; cf<\/i>. ἄμμος, ψάμαθος <i>et<\/i> ἄμαθος.<\/p>"
                },
                {
                    "dictionary": "LSJ",
                    "reference": "Liddell-Scott-Jones, Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1940)",
                    "source": null,
                    "description": "ἡ, but in Archim. <i>Aren.<\/i> 1.1, al., always ὁ : — <b>sand<\/b>, used by Hom. for ψάμαθος only in <i>Od.<\/i> 12.243, later very freq., Hdt. 8.71, etc. ; pl., <b>grains of sand<\/b>, αἱ ἀπ’ ἀλλήλων ἐσκεδασμέναι ψάμμοι S.E. <i>P.<\/i> 1.130; <b><i>prov.<\/i>, ψάμμος ἀριθμὸν περιπέφευγεν<\/b> Pi. <i>O.<\/i> 2.98; οἶδα δ’ ἐγὼ ψάμμου τ’ ἀριθμόν Orac. ap. Hdt. 1.47; ἐκ ψάμμου σχοινίον πλέκειν, of labour in vain, Aristid. 2.309J. ; of something worthless, LXX Wi. 7.9, D.Chr. 77\/8.30; ψάμμου ἄξιον Oenom. ap. Eus. <i>PE<\/i> 5.21. metallic ore used by alchemists, in pl., Olymp.Alch. p. 106B., Zos.Alch. p. 239 B. ἡ ψ. the <b>sandy desert<\/b> of Libya, the <b>sand<\/b>, Hdt. 3.25, 4.173; πλείστης ψάμμου OGI 666.27 (Egypt, i AD). (Prob. Ψαφμος, cf. ψαφαρός, ψῆφος, Lat. <b>sabulum<\/b>.)"
                },
                {
                    "dictionary": "Pape",
                    "reference": "Pape, Griechisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch (3. Aufl., 1914)",
                    "source": null,
                    "description": "ἡ, bei Archimed. immer ὁ,<br\/><b>1)<\/b> <i>der Sand, die lockere Erde<\/i>, die sich leicht aufscharren, aufkratzen (ψάω) läßt ; Hom. nur einmal, <i>Od<\/i>. 12.243 ; Her. oft u. Folgde ; ψάμμου ἀριθμὸν πέφευγεν Pind. <i>Ol<\/i>. 2.108 ; παραλία Aesch. <i>Prom<\/i>. 573.<br\/><b>2)<\/b> <i>alles dem Sande Aehnliche, Lockere, Kleingeriebene, Staub, Pulver, Mehl<\/i>, Sp."
                },
                {
                    "dictionary": "TBESG",
                    "reference": "Translators Brief lexicon of Extended Strongs for Greek based on Abbot-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922) (=AS), with corrections and adapted by Tyndale Scholars",
                    "source": null,
                    "description": "1. <b>sand <\/b>, so called from its loose, crumbling nature (from ψάω); [Odyssey by Homer (8th\/7th c.BC)], etc.:—;<i>proverbial<\/i>, ψάμμος ἀριθμὸν περιπέφευγεν [Pindar (Refs 5th c.BC)] <br\/>2. ἡ ψ. <b>the sandy desert <\/b> of Libya, [Herdotus Historicus (Refs 5th c.BC)] <br\/>Both ψάμμος and ψάμαθος sometimes drop ψ and become ἄμμος, ἄμαθος. (ML)"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}