yawning, gaping
yawning, gaping, Hp. Aph. 7.56; esp. from drowsiness, Id. VM 10, Pl. R. 503d, etc.: pl., Hp. Art. 30, Plu. Aud. 2.45d.
2 object of idle gaping, gazing-stock
object of idle gaping, gazing-stock, Antip.Stoic. 3.254.
The corpus record
χάσμ-η
chasme · ἡ
yawning, gaping
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Where it lives
- Republic 1 · 0.11/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- χάσμης · chasmēs Plato, Republic 6.503 (DIORISIS sentence 3968)
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.