1. χειλός · cheilos
The corpus record
χεῖλος
cheilos · ὁ
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Where it lives
- Proverbia 43 · 38.71/10k
- Canticum 5 · 25.71/10k
- Malachias 2 · 14.4/10k
- 1 Peter 2 · 11.6/10k
- Psalmi Salomonis 5 · 10.51/10k
- Habacuc 1 · 9.14/10k
- Job 11 · 8.25/10k
- Psalmi 28 · 8.19/10k
- Siracides 11 · 5.96/10k
- Odae 2 · 4.92/10k
- Lamentationes 1 · 4.29/10k
- Hebrews 2 · 3.98/10k
Densest 12 of 50 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant — LSJ
2. χεῖλος · cheilos
lip, with the lips only, the lips, on the surface only, tongue, lips, speech
lip, Hom., etc.: prov., ἐγέλασσε χείλεσιν laughed with the lips only, Il. 15.102; χείλεα μέν τʼ ἐδίηνʼ, ὑπερῴην δʼ οὐκ ἐδίηνε wetted the lips, but not the palate, i.e. drank sparingly, 22.495; νέκταρ ἐν χείλεσσι στάξοισι Pi. P. 9.63; πειθώ τις ἐπεκάθιζεν ἐπὶ τοῖς χ., of Pericles, Eup. 94.5; χείλεσιν διδοὺς ὀδόντας E. Ba. 621 (troch.); χείλεσιν ἀμφιλάλοις, of incessant talk, Ar. Ra. 678 (lyr.); δάκνων τὰ χ., of one in a difficulty, Eub. 53.6; ἄχρις ἡ ψυχή . . ἐπὶ χειλέων λειφθῇ Herod. l.c.; ἐπὶ τ
2 bill, beak
of horses, X. Eq. 6.8: of birds, bill, beak, E. Ion 1199, Opp. H. 3.247, AP 9.333 (Mnasalc.).
II edge, brink, rim
metaph. of things, edge, brink, rim, of a bowl, χρυσῷ δʼ ἐπὶ χείλεα κεκράανται Od. 4.616, cf. 132; Ἐλπὶς . . ἔμιμνε πίθου ὑπὸ χείλεσιν Hes. Op. 97, cf. Hdt. 3.123, Ar. Ach. 459; of a ditch, Il. 12.52, Hdt. 1.179, Th. 3.23; of the ocean, Mimn. 11.7, cf. LXX Ge. 22.17; τῶν τῆς γῆς τροχῶν Pl. Criti. 115e; of rivers, lakes, Hdt. 2.70, 94, Arist. HA 570a22; of the whorls, Pl. R. 616d, 616e; αὐλαίας, τείχους, LXX Ex. 26.4, Plb. 10.44.11; of the womb, Arist. HA 583a16; of a wound, Gal. 11.127.
In the wild
- χείλεσιν · cheilesin Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2450)
- χεῖλος · cheilos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.2 (DIORISIS sentence 5248)
- χειλῶν · cheilōn Epictetus, Discourses 2.9 (DIORISIS sentence 2339)
- χειλῶν · cheilōn Epictetus, Discourses 3.16 (DIORISIS sentence 4589)
- χείλεσιν · cheilesin Euripides, Bacchae 618–620
- χείλη · cheilē Euripides, Ion *qera/pwn (DIORISIS sentence 768)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. χεῖλος (scan pp. 1669-1670; entry #6531).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. χεῖλος (scan p. 1270; entry #8688).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. χεῖλος (scan p. 2051; entry #6069).