LOGOI

The corpus record

αἴγιθος

aigithos

parra modica

Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

What it meant

1. αἵγιθος · haigithos — Beekes

αἵγιθος [m.] “titmouse (Parus) (Ar.). *VAR αἴγινθος (Dionys. Av. 1, 12); αἴγινθος μικρός “‘parra modica’ (gloss.), not mentioned by Frisk or DELG; aiyio8oc (Arist. v.1.), for *alyroBo0c? DER alyiGadAac, -θᾶλος (Ar.), eETYM A typical substrate word, discernible from its prenasalization and the suffix -aX(A)- with variation \/ AX. See Fur.: 267, 288, 254°, 304, 387, with further literature. — [Beekes, s.v. αἵγιθος, p. 79]

2. αἴγιθος · aigithos — LSJ

linnet

an unknown bird, possibly linnet, Arist. HA 609a31, 616b10, Call. Fr. 321, Ael. NA 5.48, etc.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

Downloads

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

Ask the librarian

Ask about αἴγιθος →