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γνάθ-ος

gnathos

f

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What it meant

1. γνάθος · gnathos — Chantraine

γνάθος : f. «mâchoire » (Hp., ion.-ait.), au pl αἱ γνάθοι «les mâchoires »; désigne les barres à cheval avec le composé ἑτερόγναθος ; au pl. quelquefois «168 joues » (Hp., D.); au sens de Aâchoire parfois employé métaphoriquement. Dérivés : avec le suffixe: :desobriquet -av, -0voc : Γνάθων, nom de parasite (Plu., Longus}, aussi le diminutif Τναθωνάpiov {(Longus) et l’adj. dérivé Γναθώνειος (Plu.). Verbe dénom. … — [Chantraine, s.v. γνάθος, p. 244]

2. γνάθ-ος · gnath-os — LSJ

jaw, lower jaw, teeth

jaw, Prose form of γναθμός, also freq. in Poets, γ. ἱππείη Hom. Epigr. 14.13; ἡ ἄνω, ἡ κάτω γ., Hp. Art. 30, cf. Hdt. 2.68; καὶ γ. καὶ τὸ ἄνω τῆς γ. (where γνάθος, = lower jaw) Id. 9.83; ἔπαγε γνάθον take your teeth to it! Ar. V. 370; γνάθου δοῦλος a greedy fellow, E. Fr. 282.5; also ὄνου γ. Eup. 434: freq. in pl., Pl. Phdr. 254e, Arist. PA 664a11.

2 cheek

cheek, in pl., Hp. VM 19, Gal. 2.424, etc.; τὰς γ. φυσῶν D. 19.314, cf. Ruf. Onom. 47, Gal. 18(1).423.

3

metaph., ποταμοὶ πυρὸς δάπτοντες ἀγρίαις γνάθοις A. Pr. 370, cf. Ch. 280; also τραχεῖα πόντου Σαλμυδησσία γ., of jagged rocks, Id. Pr. 726.

II point

point of a wedge, ib. 64.

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