Sense

1. grain, spelt, a coarse wheat, fodder for horses

Examples

• ἅπασα δ’ εὐδαίμων ἡ χώρα, μικρῷ δ’ ὀρειοτέρα, ζειᾷ μᾶλλον ἢ πυρῷ τοὺσ ἀνθρώπουσ τρέφουσα· (Strabo, Geography, book 5, chapter 2 20:16)
• ἱστορεῖται δ’ ἔνια τῶν πεδίων σπείρεσθαι δι’ ἔτουσ δὶσ μὲν τῇ ζειᾷ, τὸ δὲ τρίτον ἐλύμῳ, τινὰ δὲ καὶ λαχανεύεσθαι τῷ τετάρτῳ σπόρῳ. (Strabo, Geography, book 5, chapter 4 6:15)
• λυπρὰ δὲ τὰ χωρία, καὶ ζειᾷ καὶ κέγχρῳ τὰ πολλὰ τρεφομένων· (Strabo, Geography, Book 7, chapter 5 8:4)

Similar forms

• ζεῖ (9)
• ζει (6)
• ζεῖν (3)
• ζειάς (3)
• ζειᾷ (3)
• ζειῶν (2)
• ζειν (2)
• ζειὰς (2)
• ζειαί (2)
• ζειαὶ (1)
• ζεις (1)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.