φᾰκός,
ὁ (φακόν, τό, Papyrus in [[ “Philol.” 80.340 (assuming variant))] Refs], lentil, Ervum Lens, and its fruit, Solon 38.3, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.17, “IG” 12.334.7, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 8.1.4, Diocl.fragment 117, etc.; φακὸν ἕψειν 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 10.54; ἕψημα φακοῦ LXX.Gen.25.34; ἀφέψημα φακοῦ 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.121. ] LXX+5th c.BC+]
__b plural ={φακῆ}, lentil-soup, [[ 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 67.3, 4th c.BC: Amphis Comicus 40, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.770, Vict. _Attic dialect_ 7. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 φ. ὁ ἐπὶ τῶν τελμάτων, duckweed, Lemna minor, [[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.12, 4.87. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II anything shaped like lentils:
__II.1 hot-water bottle, [[ POxy. 1088.46 (1st c.AD)] Refs 1st c.AD+]; φ. ὀστράκινος [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ γυναικείης φύσιος” 34; πυρίη φακῶν τῶν κεραμήων 2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “ὀξέων νούσων θεραπευτικόν” 2.5; φ. τοῦ ἐλαίου ] Refs 5th c.BC+]oil-flask, [[ LXX.1Ki.10.1; τοῦ ὕδατος [prev. work] 26.11. ] LXX]
__II.2 spot on the body, mole, birthmark, [[ PPetr. 3p.2, +others (3rd c.BC), 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.13, 5.118, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.563a, 800e, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 11.845, etc. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]