λειχήν

• λιχήν (likhḗn) — Koine, in inscriptions

From λείχω (leíkhō, “to lick”), derived with the meaning “the one who licks”, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leyǵʰ- (“to lick”).

λειχήν • (leikhḗn) m (genitive λειχῆνος); third declension

1. Liverwort
   • 40 CE – 90 CE, Dioscorides, Materia medica 4.53
2. Lichen-like disease affecting the skin of animals; sycosis
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 281
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates of Kos, Aphorisms 3.20
   • 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, On Sweat 14
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Leviticus 21.20
   • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 14.75
   • 400 CE – 600 CE, Aëtius, Sixteen Books on Medicine 8.16
3. Blight or canker of the ground
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 785
4. Callosity on the foreleg of horses
   • 40 CE – 90 CE, Dioscorides, Materia medica 2.43
   • 400 CE – 500 CE, Caelius Aurelianus, Chronic Diseases 1.138

• ἱππολειχήν (hippoleikhḗn)

• Greek: λειχήνα (leichína)
• → Latin: līchēn

• “λειχήν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “λείχω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 846