βήσσω · bēssō — LSJ
cough
cough, ll.cc., Ar. Ec. 56, etc.:—Med. in act. sense, Hp. Morb. 2.52:—Pass., τὰ βησσόμενα Id. Epid. 1.3.
The corpus record
βήσσω
besso
cough
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Where it lives
- Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k
- Histories 2 · 0.11/10k
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- βησσόντων · bēssontōn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 9.7 (DIORISIS sentence 8089)
- βῆξαι · bēxai Herodotus, Histories 6.107.3 (DIORISIS sentence 6812)
- βήξας · bēxas Herodotus, Histories 6.107.3 (DIORISIS sentence 6814)
- βήττειν · bēttein Xenophon, Cyropaedia 2.2.5 (DIORISIS sentence 824)
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.