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βρόχος

brochos

noose, slip-knot

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Where it lives

On Hunting 10 · 10.99/10k
Bacchae 5 · 6.65/10k
Heracles 3 · 3.83/10k
Helen 3 · 3.07/10k
Orestes 3 · 3.06/10k
Proverbia 3 · 2.7/10k
Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
Critias 1 · 2.02/10k
Machabaeourum III 1 · 1.99/10k
Libation Bearers 1 · 1.86/10k
Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
1 Corinthians 1 · 1.48/10k

Densest 12 of 24 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. βρόχος · brochos — Beekes

βρόχος [m.] ‘noose, slip-knot’ (Od.). «Ρα(ν)» “VAR βρυγχός: βρόχος (HL). *DER Bpoxic ‘id’ (AP). *ETYM The word has been connected with μόροττον: ἐκ φλοιοῦ πλέγμα τι, ᾧ ἔτυπτον ἀλλήλους τοῖς Δημητρίοις ‘plaiting of bark, with which the A. used to hit each other’ (H.), but it is uncertain whether the noose was made of bark (see Fur: 341). βρόχος has also been compared with Slavic words like OCS mréZa ‘net, noose’, … — [Beekes, s.v. βρόχος, p. 290]

2. βρόχος · brochos — Chantraine

βρόχος : «iacet, nœud coulant, maille» einployé, par exemple, à propos d'une pendaison {(Od., Hdt., ion.- att.). — Dérivés : Bpoyls, -ἰδος f. (Opp.) dit de la toile d’une araignée {AP), mesure de iongueur (10 XII 3,1232, Mélos); βροχωτός «formé d'un nœud» (Néophr., Ag. Sm.} directement tiré du substantif. Verbe dénominatif : βροχίζω «pendre » (P. Org. 850,6), au passif vêtre lié» {Gal.). . Sur le rapport possible … — [Chantraine, s.v. βρόχος, p. 212]

3. βρόχος · brochos — Frisk

βρόχος m. “Schlinge (zum Erhängen), Strick, Band, Masche’ (ion. att. seit Od.). — Davon βροχίς “Masche usw.’ (AP, Opp.) und βροχωτός “aus β. bestehend’ (Neophr., Aq., Sm.; zur Ableitung aus einem Nomen Chantraine Formation 305, Schwyzer 503). Für eihe Grundform Ἐμρόχος spricht μόροττον ἐκ φλοιοῦ πλέγμα τι, ᾧ ἔτυπτον ἀλλήλους τοῖς Δημητρίοις H. Herangezogen hat man daher einige slavische Wörter, z.B. aksl. ηυγὄζα … — [Frisk, s.v. βρόχος, p. 304]

4. βρόχος · brochos — Frisk

βρόχος. Davon noch (iva-, ἀπο-, Eu-, κατα-) βροχίζω (sp.) mit dva-, ano-, δια-βροχισμός (sp. Mediz.). — [Frisk, s.v. βρόχος, p. 2183]

5. βρόχος · brochos — LSJ

noose, slip-knot, snare for birds, mesh, a halter

noose, slip-knot, Od. 11.278, 22.472, Hdt. 4.60, Democr. 134, S. Ant. 1222, etc.; snare for birds, Ar. Av. 527; θηρῶν β. E. Hel. 1169; ἁλοὺς βρόχων πλεκταῖς ἀνάγκαις Xenarch. 1.8; mesh of a net, X. Cyn. 2.5, etc.: metaph., β. ἀρκύων ξιφηφόροι E. HF 729; ὡς ἂν ληφθῶσιν ἐν ταὐτῷ βρόχῳ A. Ch. 557; ἐν βρόχῳ τὸν τράχηλον ἔχων νομοθετεῖν ‘with a halter round oneʼs neck’, D. 24.139. (βρόκχον shd. be written in Thgn. 1099.)

In the wild

βρόχῳ · brochōi Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 554–559
βρόχου · brochou Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 787–790
βρόχους · brochous Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 442)
βρόχῳ · brochōi Demosthenes, Against Timocrates 139 (DIORISIS sentence 481)
βρόχου · brochou Demosthenes, Against Timocrates 139 (DIORISIS sentence 481)
βρόχον · brochon Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2471)

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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. βρόχος (scan pp. 290-291; entry #1305). Root candidates: *merg-.
Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. βρόχος (scan p. 212; entry #1452).
Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. βρόχος (scan p. 304; entry #1189).

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