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Ἔμπουσα

*empousa

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Where it lives

Frogs 1 · 1.1/10k
On the Crown 1 · 0.51/10k

What it meant

1. Ἔμπουσα · Empousa — Beekes

Ἔμπουσα [f.) name of a popular phantom (Ar., D.). *ETYM Probably a Pre-Greek figure, see Fur. 197%; for the use of the suffix, cf. αἴθουσα, dyyovea, κάδουσα, νήθουσα, Axidovoa; Κηλοῦσα = Κήλωσσα. — [Beekes, s.v. Ἔμπουσα, p. 466]

2. Ἔμπουσα · Empousa — Chantraine

Ἔμπουσα : {. espèce de monstre femelle (Ar., Gren. 288-2938 et ailleurs, D.), cf. Nilsson, Gesch. Gr. Relig. 725, 817. Voir aussi Taillardat, Images d’'Aristophane, ἃ 76. Et.: Le rapprochement avec xar-eurdto, ἐμπάζομαι n'est pas impossible mais risque de n'être qu'une étymologie populaire. — [Chantraine, s.v. Ἔμπουσα, p. 358]

3. Ἔμπουσα · Empousa — Frisk

Ἔμπουσα Ben. einer volkstümlichen Spukgestalt (Ar., D.); vgl. Nilsson Gr. Rel. 725 und 817. — Unerklärt. Solmsen KZ 34, 552ff., dem sich Specht KZ 63, 221 anschließt, vermutet Zusarnmenhang mit κατ-εμπάξω, ἐμπάξομαι (8. d.); vgl. Chantraine Formation 269. Verfehlt Dumezil BSL 39, 100 (zu arm. ambewt ‘Maulwurf’). — [Frisk, s.v. Ἔμπουσα, p. 540]

4. Ἔμπουσα · Empousa — LSJ

Empusa, a hobgoblin, Hecate

Empusa, a hobgoblin, assuming various shapes, said to be sent by Hecate, Ar. Ra. 293, Ec. 1056, D. 18.130; sts. identified with Hecate, Ar. Fr. 500.

In the wild

Ἔμπουσα · Empousa Aristophanes, Frogs 293
Ἔμπουσαν · Empousan Demosthenes, On the Crown 130 (DIORISIS sentence 375)

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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