ἀγρι-έλαιος, ον, =
I foreg., σκυτάλη AP 9.237 (Erycius).
II as Subst., = cross ἀγριελαία, Theoc. 7.18, Thphr. HP 2.2.5, [Rom 11:17], etc.
G65 — ἀγριέλαιος
(ἄγριος and ἔλαιος or ἐλαία, like ἀγριάμπελος);
1. of or belonging to the oleaster, or wild olive (σκυτάλην ἀγριέλαιον, Anthol. 9, 237, 4; (cf. Lob. Paralip., p. 376)); spoken of a scion, [Rom 11:17].
2. As a substantive ἡ ἀγριέλαιος the oleaster, the wild olive; (opposed to καλλιέλαιος (cf. Aristotle, plant. 1, 6)), also called by the Greeks κότινος, [Rom 11:24]; cf. Fritzsche on Romans, vol. ii. 495ff (See B. D. under the word , and Tristram, Nat. Hist. of the Bible, under the word Olive. The latter says, p. 377, 'the wild olive must not he confounded with the Oleaster or Oil-tree'.)
* ἀγρι - έλαιος , - ον ,
1. of the wild olive ( Anth .).
2. As subst ., the wild olive: [Rom 11:17]; [Rom 11:24] ( CGT , in l ; MM , VGT , s.v. ). †