1. βρύω · bryō — Beekes
The corpus record
βρύω
bruo
to swell, teem with
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Where it lives
- James 1 · 5.85/10k
- Libation Bearers 2 · 3.72/10k
- Bacchae 2 · 2.66/10k
- Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
- De Mundo 1 · 1.58/10k
- Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
- Electra 1 · 1.15/10k
- On Hunting 1 · 1.1/10k
- Oedipus at Colonus 1 · 0.97/10k
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2 · 0.19/10k
- Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k
What it meant
2. βρύω · bryō — Chantraine
3. βρύω · bryō — Frisk
4. βρύω · bryō — LSJ
to be full to bursting:
c. dat., swell or teem with, esp. of plants, ἔρνος . . βρύει ἄνθεϊ λευκῷ swells with white bloom, Il. 17.56, cf. E. Ba. 107 (lyr.); κισσῷ κάρα βρύουσαν Eub. 56.6; ἰούλῳ, θριξί, κόμαις, Philostr. Her. 2.2, Alciphr. 3.31, Luc. Am. 12; γῆ φυτοῖς βρύουσα Arist. Mu. 392b15; also βρύει ἱερὰ βουθύτοις ἑορταῖς B. 3.15: metaph., βίος . . βρύων μελίτταις καὶ προβάτοις κτλ. Ar. Nu. 45; of men, β. δόξᾳ B. 12.179; παμμάχῳ θράσει βρύων A. Ag. 169 (lyr.); ἀγαθοῖσι βρύοις Id. Supp. 966 (anap.); μαντικῇ β. τέχνῃ
c. gen., to be full of, χῶρος . . βρύων δάφνης ἐλαίας ἀμπέλου S. OC 16; βρύοντα στέφανον μύρτων Ar. Ra. 329 (lyr.); στεφάνων δόμος ἔβρυεν prob.l. in Nicaenet. l.c.; τράπεζαν . . κόσμου βρύουσαν Alex. 86.3; καρπόν . . βρύειν σμαράγδου λίθου Philostr. VA 5.5; τόπος β. ὕλης J. AJ 13.3.1; φθειρῶν ἔβρυον πᾶς Pherecyd.Syr. l.c.: metaph., νόσου β. A. Ch. 70.
abs., abound, grow luxuriantly, S. El. 422; of the earth, teem with produce, X. Cyn. 5.12, cf. Philostr. VA 3.56; of water, burst forth, ὕδωρ βρύσαν ἐξ ὑπονόμων Procop. Arc. 19.
c. acc. cogn., burst forth with, gush with, γλυκύ, πικρὸν [ὕδωρ] Ep.Jac. 3.11; τὴν γῆν τὰ οἰκεῖα βρύειν φησὶν ἀγαθά Ael. Fr. 25; causal, Ὧραι β. λειμῶνας Him. Or. 1.19; ῥόδα Anacreont. 44.2.—Poet. and later Prose.
In the wild
- βρύων · bryōn Aeschylus, Agamemnon 167–170
- βρύουσι · bryousi Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 585–588
- βρύειν · bryein Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 68–70
- βρύοις · bryois Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 966–967
- βρύουσα · bryousa Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 24)
- ἔβρυον · ebryon Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.11 (DIORISIS sentence 1047)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. βρύω (scan p. 293; entry #1319).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. βρύω (scan p. 214; entry #1463).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. βρύω (scan pp. 306-307; entry #1196).
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