ἄλειφαρ

From ἀλείφω (aleíphō, “to anoint, grease”). Cognate with Mycenaean Greek 𐀀𐀩𐀞 (a-re-pa).

ἄλειφᾰρ • (áleiphar) n (genitive ἀλείφατος); third declension

1. unguent, anointing oil, oil, fat
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.170–171:

     ἐν δ' ἐτίθει μέλιτος καὶ ἀλείφατος ἀμφιφορῆας / πρὸς λέχεα κλίνων

     en d' etíthei mélitos kaì aleíphatos amphiphorêas / pròs lékhea klínōn

     • 1924 translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D.

       And thereon he set two-handled jars of honey and oil, leaning them against the bier

   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 3.408
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.87
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.94
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On the Diseases of Women 1.74
2. pitch, resin
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 7.147

• “ἄλειφαρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἄλειφαρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἄλειφαρ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἄλειφαρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἄλειφαρ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἄλειφαρ in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)