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βόστρῠχ-ος

bostruchos

curl, lock of hair

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Where it lives

Canticum 2 · 10.28/10k
Libation Bearers 3 · 5.58/10k
Orestes 4 · 4.08/10k
Bacchae 3 · 3.99/10k
Electra 3 · 3.97/10k
Trojan Women 2 · 2.83/10k
Electra 2 · 2.3/10k
Phoenissae 2 · 2.07/10k
Helen 2 · 2.04/10k
Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
Judices (cod. Al.) 2 · 1.37/10k
Ecclesiazusae 1 · 1.31/10k

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

What it meant

1. βόστρυχος · bostrychos — Beekes

βόστρυχος [m.] ‘curl, lock of hair’ (Archil.). «ΡΟ» VAR Plur. also βόστρυχα (AP). *DER βοστρύχιον, also ‘vine-tendril (Arist, AP), βοστρύχια: στέμφυλα ‘mass of pressed graped or olives’ (H.); cf. βότρυχος s.v. » βότρυς; βοστρυχηδόν ‘in locks’ (Luc.). βοστρυχίζω, βοστρυχόομαι. On the suffix -χ- see Chantraine 1933: 402. *ETYM Unknown. The suffix -vy- could well be Pre-Greek (-vC- is frequent), and such origin is … — [Beekes, s.v. βόστρυχος, p. 275]

2. βόστρυχος · bostrychos — Chantraine

βόστρυχος : m., au pl. parfois neutre βόστρυχα (AP) «boucle de cheveux» (Archil., ion.-atlique); employé métaphoriquement, désigne chez Arist. un insecte ailé p.-ê. le mâle du vers luisant. Dérivés : Boorpbytov «petite boucle» {AP}, mais par rapprochement avec βότρυς signifie aussi « pampre, vrille de la vigne» (Arist.}, cf. encore le sens de marc dans la glose βοστρύχια - στέμφυλα (Hsch.) cf. plus loin βοστρυχίτης … — [Chantraine, s.v. βόστρυχος, p. 201]

3. βόστρυχος · bostrychos — Frisk

βόστρυχος ın., pl. auch βόστρυχα (AP), “Haarlocke’, auch übertr. in verschiedenen Bedeutungen (poet. seit Archil. und A., auch Arist. [als Insektenname] und späte Prosa). — Ableitungen: Deminutivum βοστρύχιον, auch “Weinrebe’ (Arist., AP), βοστρύχια: στέμφυλα H.; vgl. βότρυχος 5. βότρυς; — βοστρυχώδης (Philestr.), βοστρυχίτης (οἶνος) “"Weintrester’ (Aöt.; vgl. Redard Les noms grecs en -τῆς 96), auch N. eines Steins … — [Frisk, s.v. βόστρυχος, p. 286]

4. βόστρῠχ-ος · bostrych-os — LSJ

curl, lock of hair, hair

curl, lock of hair, Archil. 58, A. Ch. 178, Ar. Nu. 536, etc.: in sg. collectively, hair, ἀμπέτασον β. ὤμοις E. Hipp. 202 (lyr.).

2 anything twisted, wreathed, thunderbolt, tendrils

poet., anything twisted or wreathed, πυρὸς ἀμφήκης β. thunderbolt, A. Pr. 1044: in pl., tendrils, Philostr. VA 3.4.

3 ornament

metaph., ornament, τῆς ἠπείρου, of Smyrna, Aristid. Or. 18(20).9; of Nicomedia, Lib. Or. 61.12; ἑστίας χρυσοῦς β., of a son, Him. Or. 23.7.

II winged insect, male of the glow-worm

winged insect, perh. male of the glow-worm, Arist. HA 551b26.

2 sea-weed

in pl., sea-weed, Dionys. Av. l.c.

In the wild

βόστρυχον · bostrychon Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 167
βοστρύχοις · bostrychois Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 178
βόστρυχον · bostrychon Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 230
βόστρυχος · bostrychos Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 1043–1045
βόστρυχον · bostrychon Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 423)
βοστρύχων · bostrychōn Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 1 (DIORISIS sentence 781)

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