δέρμα, ατος, τό,
(δέρω) skin, hide, συός [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.548, +others; κριοῦ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4 161; δ. αἴγειον “PEdgar” 11.8 (3rd c.BC), etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; λέοντος a lion's skin for a cloak, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.23; κελαινόν, of a shield, 6.117 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of skins prepared for bags, bottles, etc., [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.291 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of a man's skin, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.341, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.431, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 98d, etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of a man's skin stripped off, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.64, 5.25; παλαιὸν δ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 275.4; περὶ τῷ δ. δέδοικα 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 27, compare “Pax” 746; ἀνὴρ κατὰ δέρμα θαυμαστὸς οἷος 2nd c.AD: Aristides Rhetor “Orationes” 51(27).38 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the shell of a tortoise, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 429, 1292. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 skin of fruits, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 4.14.10 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; περικαρπίων δέρματα outer coverings of seed-vessels, [[[prev. work] 1.2.6. ] Refs]wallet, scrip, [[ 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus ] Refs 5th c.AD+]