σάπων

σάπων [ᾱ], ωνος, ὁ, Lat. sapo,

• soap, τῷ Γερμανικῷ σμήγματι (καλεῖται δὲ σ.) Ruf. ap. Orib. 45.29.59, cf. Asclep. ap. Gal. 12.586, Aret. CD 2.13:—a Gallic invention (hair-dye) adopted by the Germans acc. to Plin. HN 28.191. [ᾱ, Seren.Sammon. 153.] (The Germanic forms (OHG. seifa, OE. sápe, etc.) come fr. prim. Germanic *saipjō, whence also Finn. saippio; cf. σήπων.)