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χάλαζα

chalaza · ἡ

hail, hailstones, any pelting shower

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Where it lives

  • Aggaeus 1 · 10.99/10k
  • Exodus 19 · 8.03/10k
  • De Mundo 3 · 4.73/10k
  • Sapientia Salomonis 3 · 4.35/10k
  • Revelation 4 · 4.04/10k
  • Siracides 3 · 1.63/10k
  • Josue (cod. Vat.) 2 · 1.5/10k
  • Psalmi 5 · 1.46/10k
  • Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k
  • Isaias 3 · 1.14/10k
  • Oedipus Tyrannus 1 · 1.08/10k
  • Oedipus at Colonus 1 · 0.97/10k

Densest 12 of 21 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

hail, hailstones, any pelting shower

hail (cf. Pl. Ti. 59e, Arist. Mu. 394b1), ὄμβρον . . ἠὲ χάλαζαν ἢ νιφετόν Il. 10.6, cf. 15.170, Apoc. 8.7, etc.: pl., X. Oec. 5.18, Pl. Smp. 188b, R. 397a; χ. στρογγύλαι hailstones, Ar. Nu. 1127 (troch.); ἀπὸ τῶν χαλαζῶν . . ἄπαγε σεαυτόν Id. Ra. 852: metaph., any pelting shower, ὀμβρία χ. S. OC 1503; χ. αἵματος Pi. I. 7(6).27.

II any small knot like a hailstone

any small knot like a hailstone,

1 pimple, tubercle

pimple or tubercle in the flesh of swine, Arist. HA 603b18, Pr. 963b34, Androsth. ap. Ath. 3.93c.

2 small cyst

small cyst, such as grows on the eyelid, Gal. 19.437, Poll. 4.198, etc.

3 a knot, hard lump, crystals, žled

a knot or hard lump; in an egg, Arist. HA 560a28; in coal, Thphr. Sign. 25; in ivory, Philostr. VA 2.13; λίθοι χαλάζης crystals, I Enoch 14.9,10. (Cf. Sloven. žled, Ukr. oželeda ‘sleet, ice’.)

In the wild

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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. χάλαζα (scan pp. 1659-1660; entry #6500).
  • Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. χάλαζα (scan p. 1261; entry #8635).
  • Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. χάλαζα (scan pp. 2037-2038; entry #6040). Root candidates: *ghelad-.

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