The corpus record

ἀνα-πνοή

anapnoe · ἡ

recovery of breath

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Where it lives

De Respiratione 34 · 55.98/10k
Timaeus 16 · 6.77/10k
De juventute et senectute, De vita et morte 1 · 5.44/10k
De Sensu et Sensibilibus 3 · 3.84/10k
De Somno et Vigilia 1 · 3.36/10k
De Mundo 2 · 3.15/10k
Epinomis 1 · 1.59/10k
Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k
Ajax 1 · 1.27/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k
Phaedrus 1 · 0.6/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ἀνα-πνοή · ana-pnoē — LSJ

recovery of breath, rest from, breath, fresh courage, breath enough

recovery of breath, μόχθων ἀμπνοά rest from toils, Pi. O. 8.7, cf. E. IT 92, etc.; ἀμπνοὰν ἔστᾱσαν they recovered breath, took fresh courage, Pi. P. 4.199; ἀ. διδόναι, παρέχειν, E. Andr. 1137, Pl. Ti. 70d; λαμβάνειν Id. Phdr. 251e; ἀναπνοὴν ἔχει . . εἰπεῖν has breath enough to say, Men. 536.6.

II respiration, breathing, breathe, live, strangle, a breath

respiration, breathing, Pi. P. 3.57, Ar. Nu. 627, Pl. Ti. 33c, etc.; including εἰσπνοή and ἐκπνοή, Arist. Resp. 471a7; ἀμπνοὰς ἔχειν, = ἀναπνεῖν, breathe, live, S. Aj. 416; τὴν ἀ. ἀπολαβεῖν τινος strangle, Plu. Rom. 27; ὑπὸ τὴν ἀ. in a breath, Plb. 10.47.9.

2 inspiration

= εἰσπνοή, inspiration, opp. ἐκπνοή, Pl. Ti. 78e, 79e, cf. Arist. Resp. 480b10.

III exhalation

exhalation, Thphr. HP 6.2.4.

IV breathing organ

breathing organ, of the nose and mouth, D.S. 2.12, Luc. Nigr. 32.

2 air-hole, vent

air-hole, vent, Pl. Ti. 85a, 91b, Plu. Aem. 14.— Only sg. in Pi.; only pl. in Trag.

In the wild

ἀναπνοῆς · anapnoēs Aristotle, De juventute et senectute, De vita et morte (DIORISIS sentence 1)
ἀναπνοὰς · anapnoas Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 124)
ἀναπνοὰς · anapnoas Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 92)
ἀναπνοήν · anapnoēn Aristotle, De Respiratione (DIORISIS sentence 106)
ἀναπνοῆς · anapnoēs Aristotle, De Respiratione (DIORISIS sentence 10)
ἀναπνοήν · anapnoēn Aristotle, De Respiratione (DIORISIS sentence 114)

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