LOGOI

The corpus record

ἰβύ

ibu

loudly, shout, trumpeter

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What it meant — LSJ

loudly, shout, trumpeter

loudly, Phot.: hence aor. 1 inf. ἰβυκινῆσαι, shout, Telecl. 58 (ἰβυκηνίσαι EM 464.44): but Subst. ἰβυκανητής, οῦ, ὁ, = βυκανητής, trumpeter, read by Suid. in Plb. 2.29.6 (βυκανητῶν, βυκανιτῶν codd.). Ion. words, acc. to Hsch.: derived from the poet Ibycus, Suid.

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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