wheat

wheat
subs.
Ar. and P. πῡρός, ὁ ; see corn.Sell wheat, v.: P. πυροπωλεῖν.

WHEAT

triticum. A wheat-field ager tritico consitus: wheat land solum tritico colendo utile aptum: wheat harvest messis triticea: wheat flour farina triticea: a grain of wheat tritici granum (Cic.): wheat straw stramentum triticeum.

wheat: trītĭcum: he made them promise a hundred and twenty bushels of wheat, tritici modios centum viginti polliceri coegit, Caes. B. C. 2, 18. Phr.: a wheat crop, triticea messis, Virg. G. 1, 219: a wheat field, *ager tritico consitus (Kr.): a grain of wheat, *tritici granum (Kr.): wheat straw, *stramentum triticeum (Kr.).

πυρός
wheat

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appearing fewer than 50 times

γλυκύπυρος
wheat
ζειά
grain, spelt, a coarse wheat
πυρίδιον2
dim. of πυρός, wheat
σητάνιος
of this year (of wheat: spring wheat (?))
σιλίγνιον
siligo, winter wheat
στλεγγύς
wheat
στραγγίας
wheat
τίφινος
of τίφη, one-grained wheat, einkorn

triticum
wheat

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appearing fewer than 50 times

siligo
winter-wheat; hence, fine wheaten flour

wheat Wheat

• given by Demeter to Triptolemus and sown by him over the whole earth: Apollod. 1.5.2
• parched by women at instigation of Ino: Apollod. 1.8.6
• kneaded with honey burnt in sacrifices: Paus. 5.15.10