1. ἐμπίς · empis — Frisk
The corpus record
ἐμπίς
empis
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Where it lives
- Clouds 5 · 5.2/10k
- Lysistrata 2 · 2.52/10k
- Birds 1 · 0.94/10k
What it meant
2. ἐμπίς · empis — Frisk
3. ἐμπίς · empis — LSJ
mosquito, gnat, Ar. Nu. 157; ἐμπίδες ὀξύστομοι Id. Av. 245, cf. Arist. HA 490a21, Porph. Abst. 3.20; the gnat Chironomus, Arist. HA 551b27; prob. may-fly, ib. 601a4.
larva of the οἶστρος, ib. 487b5 (v.l.).
In the wild
- ἐμπίδας · empidas Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 213)
- ἐμπίδος · empidos Aristophanes, Clouds 160 (DIORISIS sentence 132)
- ἐμπίδων · empidōn Aristophanes, Clouds 165 (DIORISIS sentence 135)
- ἐμπίδας · empidas Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 130)
- ἐμπίδος · empidos Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 131)
- ἐμπίδος · empidos Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 137)
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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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