Αἰθίοψ, οπος, ὁ,
feminine Αἰθιοπίς, ίδος, ἡ (Αἰθίοψ as feminine, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 328, 329)] Refs 4th c.BC+]: plural Αἰθιοπῆες[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.423, whence _nominative_ Αἰθιοπεύς 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Delum” 208] Refs 8th c.BC+]: (αἴθω, ὄψ):—properly, Burnt-face, i.e. Ethiopian, negro, [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; proverbial, Αἰθίοπα σμήχειν 'to wash a blackamoor white', [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Ind.” 28. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__2 a fish, [[ 2nd c.BC: Agatharchides Geographus 109. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__II adjective, [[ “Ethiopian”, Αἰθιοπὶς γλῶσσα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.19; γῆ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 300, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 228.4: ] Refs 5th c.BC+]substantive Αἰθιοπίς, ἡ, title of Epic poem in the Homeric cycle; also name of a plant, silver sage, Salvia argentea, [[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 4.104] Refs 1st c.AD+]:— also Αἰθιόπιος, α, ον, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 349] Refs 5th c.BC+]: Αἰθιοπικός, ή, όν, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Αἰ. κύμινον, ={ἄμι}, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ νούσων” 3.17, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 3.62] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—substantive Αἰθιοπία, ἡ, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 red-brown, [[ Anthologia Graeca 7.196 (1st c.BC: Meleager Epigrammaticus), cf. Ach. Tat. 4.5.] Refs 1st c.BC+]