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ἀηδ-ών

aedon

nightingale

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Where it lives

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Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. ἀηδών · aēdōn — Beekes

ἀηδών, -ὄνος [f.] ‘nightingale’ (Od.). « PG?(s)> “ΑΒ Also anda, -οὖς [f.] (S.). Also [m.], but rare. eETYM From *apndav; cf. ἀβηδόνα: ἀηδόνα (H.). Connection with » ἀείδω and > αὐδή (which is almost universally accepted) is difficult, since a lengthened grade *h,uéd- is improbable. The word could therefore well be Pre-Greek; for the suffix, cf. bird and animals names like » χελῖδών ‘swallow’, » τενθρηδών ‘wasp’. — [Beekes, s.v. ἀηδών, p. 74]

2. ἀηδών · aēdōn — Chantraine

ἀηδών, τόνος : f. «rossignol » (masculin rare, atiique selon Eust. 376,24). Le mot est attesté depuis l’Od., Hésiode, etc. Autre forme ἀηδώ, -oüs (Sapho, 5. et Ar. dans des parties lyriques). Dérivés ἀηδονίς (Ε., etc.), ἀηδονιδεύς « petit du rossignol» (correction certaine Theoc. 15,121), adj. dérivé ἀηδόνιος (Æsch., Ar.), se dit d'un sommeil léger {Nicochares, 4 D.). Et.: L'existence d'un digamma intervocalique est … — [Chantraine, s.v. ἀηδών, p. 40]

3. ἀηδών · aēdōn — Frisk

ἀηδών, -όνος f. (m.) Nachtigall’ (seit Od.), auch ἀηδώ, -οὔς f. (S. und Ar. in Iyr.), aus *dfndor (ἀβηδόνα- ἀηδόνα H.). Ableitungen: ἀηδονίς f. (Εἰ. usw.), ἀηδονιδεύς m. (Theok. 15, 121 nach Valckenaer für ἀηδονιεύς), ἀηδόνιος (A., Ar... — Zu ἀείδω, αὐδή ; die näheren Beziehungen sind nicht festzustellen. Ansprechend ist der Vorschlag Solmsens Unt. 238, 266, ἀξηδεών als Dehnstufe der in aöö-7 durch Schwundstufe … — [Frisk, s.v. ἀηδών, p. 56]

4. ἀηδ-ών · aēd-ōn — LSJ

songstress, the nightingale, living in the greenwood, poet, strains

songstress, i.e. the nightingale, Hes. Op. 203, etc.; Πανδαρέου κούρη, χλωρηὶς ἀ., i.e. living in the greenwood, Od. 19.518; χλωραύχην ἀ. Simon. 73:—metaph., of a poet, B. 3.98, cf. E. Fr. 588 (lyr.), AP 7.44 (Ion), Hermesian. 7.49; also of the poetʼs song, τεαὶ ἀηδόνες thy strains, Call. Epigr. 2.5; ζωούσας ἔλιπες γὰρ ἀηδόνας IG 14.2012.

2 cicada

metaph., cicada, AP 7.190 (Anyte).

II mouthpiece, flute

mouthpiece of a flute, E. Fr. 556; the flute itself, ib. 931.

2 shuttle

metaph., of shuttle, AP 6.174 (Antip. Sid.).—Masc., only Ion l.c.; Ἀττικὸς ἀνὴρ τὸν αἶγα λέγει ὥσπερ καὶ τὸν ἀηδόνα Eust. 376.24.

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Where it came from

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