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ἰσχνό-φωνος

ischnophonos

thin-voiced, weak-voiced

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Where it lives

Exodus 2 · 0.84/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

ἰσχνό-φωνος · ischno-phōnos — LSJ

thin-voiced, weak-voiced

thin-voiced, weak-voiced, Phld. Po. 2.25, Gal. 17(1).186; of Isocrates, Plu. VOrat. 2.837a; of partridges, Antig. Mir. 6; but,

II having an impediment in oneʼs speech

having an impediment in oneʼs speech (connected by the Greeks with ἴσχω), οἱ ἰ. . . ἴσχονται τοῦ φωνεῖν Arist. Pr. 903a38, cf. 895a15, 905a21, AB 100; ἰ. καὶ τραυλός Hdt. 4.155, cf. Hp. Epid. 1.19; ἰ. καὶ βραδύγλωσσος LXX Ex. 4.10, cf. Ezek. Exag. 114; also of metals, etc., χρυσὸς καὶ λίθος ὑπὸ πληρότητος ἰ. καὶ δυσηχῆ Plu. QConv. 2.721c: metaph., ἡ φιλία ἰ. γέγονεν ἐν τῷ παρρησιάζεσθαι ib. Util. 89b. Adv. -φώνως Zos.Alch. p.108B.

In the wild

ἰσχνόφωνός · ischnophōnos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2257)
ἰσχόφωνος · ischophōnos Herodotus, Histories 4.155.1 (DIORISIS sentence 5039)
ἰσχνόφωνος · ischnophōnos Septuaginta, Exodus 4
ἰσχνόφωνός · ischnophōnos Septuaginta, Exodus 6

Where it came from

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