μάρμᾰρος, ὁ,
a crystalline rock, which sparkles (μαρμαίρει) in the light, μάρμαρος ὀκριόεις [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.380, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.499, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 663 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 1172 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 8th c.BC+]: as adjective, πέτρος μ. ὀκριόεις [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.735, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1401, etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__II later, marble, μάρμαρον ἢ λίθον λευκήν [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “γυναικεῖα” 2.185, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Lapidibus” 9: also _feminine_, μαρμάρου.. τῆς Πεντελικῆς μέταλλα 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 9.1.23; μ. λίθος [prev. author] 14.1.35: hence, ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 work in marble, i.e. tombstone, τυκτὴ μ. [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 22.211. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__II.3 chips made by cutting marble (masculine), [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.660c, 954a, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 5.79. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]