μορμο-λῠκεῖον · mormo-lykeion — LSJ
bogey, hobgoblin
bogey, hobgoblin, Ar. Th. 417 (pl.), Pl. Phd. 77e, Socr. ap. Arr. Epict. 2.1.15 (pl.), Gal. Protr. 10.
2 mask
μ. κωμῳδικόν comic mask, Ar. Fr. 31, cf. 131.
The corpus record
μορμο-λῠκεῖον
mormolukeion · τό
bogey, hobgoblin
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Where it lives
- Thesmophoriazusae 1 · 1.42/10k
- Phaedo 1 · 0.46/10k
- Discourses 3 · 0.4/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- μορμολυκεῖα · mormolykeia Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae (DIORISIS sentence 331)
- μορμολύκειον · mormolykeion Epictetus, Discourses 2.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1829)
- μορμολύκειον · mormolykeion Epictetus, Discourses 2.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1839)
- μορμολύκεια · mormolykeia Epictetus, Discourses 2.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1821)
- μορμολύκεια · mormolykeia Plato, Phaedo 77 (DIORISIS sentence 484)
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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