1. ἰσχνός · ischnos — Beekes
The corpus record
ἰσχνός
ischnos
dry, arid, languishing, lean
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Where it lives
- Republic 2 · 0.23/10k
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2 · 0.19/10k
- Enneads 3 · 0.14/10k
- Metaphysics 1 · 0.13/10k
- Laws 1 · 0.1/10k
What it meant
2. ἰσχνός · ischnos — Chantraine
3. Ἰσχνός · Ischnos — Chantraine
4. ἰσχνός · ischnos — Frisk
5. ἰσχνός · ischnos — LSJ
dry, withered, φυλλεῖα Ar. Ach. 469; ἰ. τυρός, opp. χλωρός, Poll. 6.48, POxy. 1338 (v A.D.).
of persons, thin, lean, Hp. Aph. 2.44, Theoc. 10.27, etc.; ἰσχνοὶ καὶ σφηκώδεις Ar. Pl. 561; ἰσχνοὶ καὶ ἄσιτοι Pl. Lg. 665e; ἰ. ἕξεις a spare habit of body, Plu. Lyc. 17; of roots, -ότεραι Dsc. 1.9,10; of the voice, ἰσχνὸν φθέγγεσθαι to speak thin or small, Luc. Nigr. 11.
weak, feeble, σφυγμός Gal. 8.506.
reduced, of a swelling, οὕτω ἂν τάχιστα ἰσχνὸν τὸ οἴδημα γένοιτο Hp. Fract. 21, cf. Epid. 4.26. Adv. -νῶς, ἑστηκώς without external swelling, Id. Coac. 481.
light, thin, of clothing materials, POxy. 1535 B 9 (ii/iii A.D.), etc.:metaph., of style, spare, plain, unadorned, ἰ. χαρακτήρ D.H. Pomp. 2, cf. Demetr. Eloc. 190, Quint. 12.10.58, Plu. Aud. 2.42d. Adv. -νῶς, εἰπεῖν to speak plainly, Plb. 1.2.6; -νῶς ἰδεῖν τὴν ἀρετήν dub.l. in Lycurg. 80. (Perh. cogn. with Lat. vescus: a connexion with ἴσχω was imagined by the Greeks; cf. ἰσχνόφωνος II.)
In the wild
- ἰσχνὸν · ischnon Aristotle, Metaphysics book 7 (DIORISIS sentence 2052)
- ἰσχνὸς · ischnos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 5479)
- ἰσχνὸν · ischnon Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 8.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7328)
- ἰσχνοί · ischnoi Plato, Laws 665
- ἰσχνοῖς · ischnois Plato, Republic 4.422 (DIORISIS sentence 2189)
- ἰσχνὸς · ischnos Plato, Republic 8.556 (DIORISIS sentence 4988)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. ἰσχνός (scan p. 650; entry #2770). Root candidates: *sek-, *si-.
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ἰσχνός (scan p. 486; entry #3441).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ἰσχνός (scan pp. 773-774; entry #2650).
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