Primary sources are abbreviated according to the conventions of the Oxford Classical Dictionary. Key secondary references are abbreviated as follows:
Fr. D = Evangelia Frangaki, 1978. Η δημώδης ιατρική της Κρήτης. Αθήνα: no publisher.
Fr. S = Evangelia Frangaki, 1969. Συμβολή εις την δημώδη ορολογίαν των φυτών. Αθήνα: no publisher.
Genn. = Panagiotis Georgiou Gennadios, 1914. Λεξικόν φυτολογικόν. Αθήνα: Παρασκευά Λεώνη. Reprint: Αθήνα: no publisher 1997.
Held. = Theodor von Heldreich, 1925. Τα δημώδη ὀνόματα τῶν φυτῶν2. Αθήνα: Ιωάννης Δ. Κολλάρος.
Hippocrates = Potter, Paul, 1988. ‘Index of Food and Drugs’ and ‘Greek Names of Foods and Drugs Included in Index’. In Paul Potter (ed.), Hippocrates, with an English translation, vol. 6. Loeb Classical Library 473. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, and London: William Heinemann. 344–61.
Hist. Lex. Acad. Ath. = Ἱστορικὸν λεξικὸν τῆς νέας ἑλληνικὴς γλώσσης: τῆς τε κοινὼς ὁμιλουμένης καὶ τῶν ἰδιωμάτων. Anthimos Papadopoulos and Demetrios J. Georgakis (eds), 1933. Αθήνα: Ἀκαδημία Ἀθηνῶν καì ῾Εστία.
Hsch. Lex. = (1) Hesychius. Lexicon (Α–Ο). Kurt Latte (ed.), 1953–66. Hesychii Alexandrini lexicon. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Munksgaard. (2) Hesychius. Lexicon. Mauricius Schmidt (ed.), 1867. Hesychii Alexandrini lexicon. 5 vols. Jenae: Sumptibus Hermanii Dufftii (Libreria Maukiana). Reprint: Amsterdam: Hakkert 1965.
Kav. = Demetrios S. Kavvadas 1956. Εικονογραφημένον βοτανικόν φυτολογικόν λεξικόν. 9 vols. Αθήνα: no publisher.
K. = Karl Gottlob Kühn (ed.), 1821–33. Claudii Galeni opera omnia. (20 vols in 22) Leipzig: K. Knobloch. Reprint. Hildesheim: Olms, 1964 and 2001.
Lk. = Bernhard Langkavel, 1866. Botanik der spaeteren Griechen vom dritten bis dreizehnten Jahrhunterte. Berlin: F. Berggold.
LSJ = Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott and Sir Henry Stuart Jones, 1985. Greek-English Lexicon9. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
OCL.D. = Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth (eds), 1996. The Oxford Classical Dictionary3. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
ODBYZ. = Alexander P. Kazhdan et al., 1991. The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
OED = John Bradbury Sykes, 1982. The Concise Oxford Dictionary7. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
OGD = Julian T. Pring (ed.), 2000 Oxford Greek Dictionary2. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Papad. = Κρητικὸ ἰατροσόφιον τοῦ 19ου αἰώνα. Nikolaos E. Papadogiannakis (ed.), 2001. Κρητικὸ ἰατροσόφιον τοῦ 19ου αἰώνα. Ἔκδοση, εἰσαγωγή, σημειώσεις. Ρέθυμνον: Ἱστορικὴ καὶ Λαογραφικὴ Ἑταιρεία Ρεθύμνης.
Rig. = Gerasimos Rigatos 2005. Λεξικό ιατρικής λαογραφίας. Αθήνα: ΒΗΤΑ Ιατρικές Εκδόσεις.
TLG = Thesaurus Linguae Graecae 1985. Online comprehensive digital library of Greek literature in which terms, stems or phrases can be searched. University of California (Irvine). URL: http://www.tlg.uci.edu/.