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βρόκος

brokos

dull

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What it meant

1. βροκός · brokos — Beekes

βροκός [adj.] - μωρός, Ἕλληνες ‘dull’ (H.); βρόκων' ἀμαθής, ἀπαίδευτος, οἷον βόσκημα ‘who has not learnt; uneducated; like a piece of cattle’ (H.). eETYM DELG refers to βρόκοι- ἀττέλεβοι ‘locusts’ and considers it to be “un emploi plaisant” of ‘locust’. To my mind, it is rather an accidental homonym. Fur: 145 suggests connection with πρόκον- ἠλίθιον ‘numb’ (H.), and, much more doubtfully, with Lat. bargus ‘sine … — [Beekes, s.v. βροκός, p. 288]

2. βροκός · brokos — Chantraine

βροκός : μωρός, “Ἕλληνες (Hsch.); βρόκων ἀμαθής, ἀπαίδευτος οἷον βόσκημα (Η56}.). Voir aussi βροῦχος : est-ce un emploi plaisant du nom de la sauterelle ? — [Chantraine, s.v. βροκός, p. 211]

3. βρόκος · brokos — LSJ

= βροῦκος, Hsch.

II

= sq., in later Greek, Id.

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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