1. γλαῦξ · glaux — Beekes
The corpus record
γλαύξ
glaux
little owl, Athene noctua
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Where it lives
- Leviticus 2 · 1.07/10k
- Deuteronomium 1 · 0.45/10k
- Eudemian Ethics 1 · 0.38/10k
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2 · 0.19/10k
- Histories 1 · 0.05/10k
- Enneads 1 · 0.05/10k
What it meant
2. γλαῦξ · glaux — Chantraine
3. γλαῦξ · glaux — Frisk
4. γλαῦξ · glaux — Frisk
5. γλαύξ · glaux — LSJ
the little owl, Athene noctua, so called from its glaring eyes, Epich. 166, Arist. HA 488a26, al.; freq. as emblem of Athena, Ar. Av. 516, Eq. 1093, etc.: prov., γλαῦκʼ Ἀθήναζε, γλαῦκʼ εἰς Ἀθήνας, ‘carry coals to Newcastle’, Ar. Av. 301, Antiph. 175.2; γλαῦξ ἐν πόλει ‘Jackʼs as good as his master’, Hsch., etc.; γλαῦκες Λαυρειωτικαί, of Athenian coins, from the type, Ar. Av. 1106; so of figures of owls, IG 2.678B76.
γ. θαλαττία, an unknown bird, Thphr. Sign. 52.
a kind of dance, Ath. 14.629f.
wart cress, Coronopus procumbens, Dsc. 4.138, Gal. 11.857:—also γλάξ, Hdn. Gr. 1.395, al.
In the wild
- γλαυκός · glaukos Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 8
- γλαῦκα · glauka Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2566)
- γλαῦκα · glauka Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 4.6 (DIORISIS sentence 3435)
- γλαῦκʼ · glaukʼ Herodotus, Histories 6.86C.2 (DIORISIS sentence 6702)
- γλαυκὸς · glaukos Plotinus, Enneads 4.4 (DIORISIS sentence 2883)
- γλαῦκα · glauka Septuaginta, Deuteronomium 14
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. γλαύξ (scan p. 322; entry #1445).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. γλαύξ (scan p. 240; entry #1643).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. γλαύξ (scan p. 343; entry #1304).