The corpus record

βομβῠλι-ός

bombulios · ὁ

buzzing insect: humble-bee

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Where it lives

Helen 1 · 2.68/10k
Wasps 1 · 1.03/10k

What it meant

βομβῠλι-ός · bombyli-os — LSJ

buzzing insect: humble-bee, gnat, mosquito

buzzing insect: humble-bee, Ar. V. 107, Isoc. 10.12, Arist. HA 623b12, 629a29; gnat, mosquito, Hsch.

2 cocoon of the silk-worm

cocoon of the silk-worm (v.l. βομβυλίς), Arist. HA 551b12.

II narrow-necked vessel, gurgles

narrow-necked vessel that gurgles in pouring, Hp. Morb. 3.16, IG ΙΙ(2).154A 68 (Delos, iii B. C.), Socr. ap. Ath. 11.784d, Luc. Lex. 7. (On the accent v. Hdn. Gr. 1.116, al.)

In the wild

βομβυλιὸς · bombylios Aristophanes, Wasps (DIORISIS sentence 73)
βομβυλιοὺς · bombylious Isocrates, Helen 12 (DIORISIS sentence 26)

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.

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