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βαρύς

barus

heavy in weight

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Where it lives

  • Machabaeourum III 7 · 13.92/10k
  • Eumenides 6 · 11.45/10k
  • Nahum 1 · 10.83/10k
  • Suppliant Maidens 5 · 10.37/10k
  • Agamemnon 8 · 9.86/10k
  • Trachiniae 6 · 8.26/10k
  • Persians 4 · 7.86/10k
  • Minos 2 · 7.01/10k
  • Philoctetes 6 · 6.82/10k
  • De Mundo 4 · 6.31/10k
  • Seven Against Thebes 3 · 5.96/10k
  • Rhesus 3 · 5.58/10k

Densest 12 of 91 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

heavy in weight, strength and force, bushy, heavy with age, infirmity, suffering, pregnant, heavy, slow

heavy in weight, β. ἀείρεσθαι, opp. κοῦφος, Hdt. 4.150, cf. Pl. Tht. 152d, Arist. Cael. 310b25, etc.: in Hom. mostly with collat. notion of strength and force, χεῖρα βαρεῖαν Il. 1.219, cf. 89; ἀκμᾷ βαρύς Pi. I. 4(3).51; β. τὸ σῶμα App. Mac. 14; of athletes, Philostr. Gym. 31; ὀφρύς bushy, ib. 48; but also, heavy with age, infirmity or suffering, νόσῳ S. Tr. 235; σὺν γήρᾳ Id. OT 17; ἐν γήρᾳ Id. Aj. 1017; ὑπὸ γήρως Ael. VH 9.1; ὑπὸ τῆς μέθης Plu. Gen.Socr. 2.596a; pregnant, PGoodsp.Cair. 15.15 (iv

2 heavy to bear, grievous, heavily, burdensome, grievous, oppressive, causing disgust, unwholesome, indigestible, ill, impatiently, with dignity, with disgust

heavy to bear, grievous, ἄτη, ἔρις, κακότης, Il. 2.111, 20.55, 10.72; Κλῶθες Od. 7.197; κῆρες Il. 21.548; β. κὴρ τὸ μὴ πιθέσθαι A. Ag. 206 (lyr.); βαρὺ or βαρέα στενάχειν sob heavily, Od. 8.95, 534, Il. 8.334, etc.: in Trag. and Prose, burdensome, grievous, oppressive, β. ξυμφορά, τύχαι, καταλλαγαί, etc., A. Pers. 1044 (lyr.), Th. 332 (lyr.), 767 (lyr.), etc.; ἡδονή S. OC 1204; ἀγγελία β. ἢν ἐν τοῖς βαρύτατʼ ἂν ἐνέγκαιμι Pl. Cri. 43c; πόλεμος D. 18.241; βαρὺ κοὐχὶ δίκαιον Id. 21.66; νόσος causin

3 violent

violent, ὀργή S. Ph. 368; μῆνις Id. OC 1328; ἀπέχθειαι Pl. Ap. 23a (Sup.); θυμός Theoc. 1.96.

4 weighty, grave, ample

weighty, grave, ἐπιστολαί 2 Ep.Cor. 10.10; αἰτιώματα Act.Ap. 25.7; τὰ βαρύτερα τοῦ νόμου Ev.Matt. 23.23; ample, βαρυτάτην εὐδαιμονίαν τοῖς ἀρχομένοις παρέξειν Hdn. 2.14.3.

II severe, stern, wearisome, troublesome

of persons, severe, stern, β. ἐπιτιμητής A. Pr. 77; εὔθυνος Id. Pers. 828, cf. S. OT 546; Κύπρι βαρεῖα Theoc. 1.100; wearisome, troublesome, E. Supp. 894, Pl. Tht. 210c, etc.; ξύνοικος A. Supp. 415, S. Fr. 753; γείτονες Plb. 1.10.6.

2 overbearing, important, powerful

overbearing, σεμνότεροι ἢ βαρύτεροι Arist. Rh. 1391a27 (but σεμνὸς καὶ β. Str. 14.1.42); ὑπερήφανοι καὶ β. Plu. Aet.Gr. 2.279c; important, powerful, πόλις Plb. 1.17.5, etc.

3 heavy-armed

of soldiers, heavy-armed, X. Cyr. 5.3.37 (s.v.l.); of the ὁπλίτης Pl. Lg. 833b (Comp.); τὰ β. τῶν ὅπλων Plb. 1.76.3.

4 difficult

difficult, ὅρκος γὰρ οὐδεὶς ἀνδρὶ φηλήτῃ β. S. Fr. 933.

III

of impressions on the senses,

1 strong, deep, bass, low, grave, unaccented, with the accent thrown back, on a lower note

of sound, strong, deep, bass, opp. to ὀξύς, Od. 9.257, S. Ph. 208, Pl. Prt. 332c, Arist. EN 1125a14, etc.; βαρὺ ἀμβόασον A. Pers. 572 (lyr.); φθέγγονται βαρύτατον ἀνθρώπων Hp. Aër. 15; βαρύτατα ὑπακούειν, of diseases, Id. Prorrh. 2.39; πενθεῖν Ael. VH 12.1; esp. of musical pitch, low, opp. ὀξύς, βαρυτάτη χορδή Pl. Phdr. 268e; ἆχος, φωνά, Archyt. I, cf. Arist. EE 1235a28, Aristox. Harm. p.3 M.; of accent, grave, ἀντὶ ὀξείας τῆς μέσης συλλαβῆς βαρεῖαν ἐφθεγξάμεθα Pl. Cra. 399b; ὀξείᾳ καὶ βαρείᾳ κα

2 strong, offensive

of smell, strong, offensive, Hdt. 6.119.

3 slowly

Adv. βαρέως slowly, ἐπισπᾶσθαι Hero Aut. 26.6. (guṛr-u- from guṝ-u-, Skt. gurús ‘heavy’, Lat. gravis (from fem. gurəwī-), Goth. kaúrus ‘heavy’.)

In the wild

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Where it came from

  • Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. βαρύς (scan pp. 249-250; entry #1069).
  • Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. βαρύς (scan p. 179; entry #1204).
  • Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. βαρύς (scan p. 251; entry #999).

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