The corpus record

βροντή

bronte · ἡ

thunder, the state of one struck with thunder, astonishment

Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Theogony 9 · 13.07/10k
Revelation 9 · 9.1/10k
Prometheus Bound 5 · 8.5/10k
De Mundo 4 · 6.31/10k
Clouds 6 · 6.24/10k
Apology 1 · 5/10k
Amos 1 · 3.25/10k
Oedipus at Colonus 3 · 2.9/10k
Apollodorus Against Polycles 1 · 2.18/10k
Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
Phoenissae 2 · 2.07/10k
Birds 2 · 1.88/10k

Densest 12 of 31 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

βροντ-ή · bront-ē — LSJ

thunder

thunder, Διὸς μεγάλοιο κεραυνὸν δεινήν τε β. Il. 21.199; ὑπὸ βροντῆς πατρὸς Διός 13.796; Ζηνός τε βροντῇ Od. 20.121; ἀστραπὴ καὶ β. Hdt. 3.86; β. στεροπῇ τε A. Supp. 34 (anap.); β. καὶ κεραυνίᾳ φλογί Id. Pr. 1017; βροντῆς μύκημα ib. 1062 (anap.), cf. 1083 (anap.); β. δʼ ἐρράγη διʼ ἀστραπῆς S. Fr. 578, etc.: in pl., Id. OC 1514, X. HG 1.6.28, Thphr. Sign. 21, etc.; χθόνιαι β. Ar. Av. 1745: metaph., τούτου τὰς β. οἶδʼ ὅτι δείσεις Lib. Ep. 98.4.

II the state of one struck with thunder, astonishment

the state of one struck with thunder, astonishment, ἐπεάν σφι θεὸς ἐμβάλῃ β. Hdt. 7.10.εʹ (βρομτᾱ, cf. βρέμω.)

In the wild

βροντῇ · brontēi Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 1014–1019
βροντῇ · brontēi Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 1043–1045
βροντῆς · brontēs Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 1058–1062
βροντῆς · brontēs Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 1082–1084
βροντῆς · brontēs Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 922–923
βροντῇ · brontēi Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 33–39

6 of 97 attestations shown. Ask for more.

Where it came from

Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. βροντή (scan p. 289; entry #1298).

Downloads

Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

Ask the librarian

Ask about βροντή →