σάνδυξ

Akin to Arabic سُنْدُس (sundus), Old Armenian սնդուս (sndus), Iranian loanwords related to Middle Persian (sndws, “a silk (or brocade) garment”), Sogdian (sndws /⁠sandus⁠/, “a silk wear”), Sanskrit सिन्दूर (sindūra, “red lead”), maybe also with σανδαράκη (sandarákē). Likely spread through an Anatolian form; Liddell suggesting that they all ultimate originate in Akkadian 𒉌𒌓𒍝𒄢 (NA₄.GUG /⁠sāmtu, sāntu, sāndu⁠/, “red stone, carnelian, cinnabar”).

σάνδυξ • (sándux) f (genitive σάνδῠκος or σάνδῡκος); third declension

1. bright red mineral colorant from red lead

   Synonyms: μίλτος (míltos), συρικόν (surikón)

2. (in the plural) flesh coloured women's garment dyed with this colorant
3. kind of salve

• → Latin: sandix
  • → English: sandix

According to Beekes, from Pre-Greek, possibly related to σενδούκη (sendoúkē) of which he makes a similar claim. Potential connection to σῠνθήκη (sunthḗkē), possibly even a re-borrowing from an eastern source like Aramaic צנדוקא (ṣndūḳā).

σάνδυξ • (sándux) f (genitive σάνδῠκος or σάνδῡκος); third declension

1. kind of casket, box

• “σάνδυξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• σάνδυξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN