The corpus record

χᾰμηλός

chamelos

on the ground, creeping

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Where it lives

On the Art of Horsemanship 1 · 1.44/10k

What it meant — LSJ

on the ground, creeping

on the ground, creeping, λειχήν Nic. Th. 944; πίτυς χ., = χαμαίπιτυς, ib. 841: Comp. -ότερος Id. Fr. 70.2.

2 low, flat

low, = χθαμαλός, Str. 10.2.12; of a horseʼs hoofs, flat, X. Eq. 1.3.

3 diminutive, trifling, low

diminutive, trifling, στιγμῆς εἴ τι -ότερον AP 7.472.4 (Leon.); χαμηλὰ πνέων one of a low spirit, Pi. P. 11.30.

In the wild

χαμηλαί · chamēlai Xenophon, On the Art of Horsemanship 1.3 (DIORISIS sentence 13)

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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