νεοσσ-ίον · neoss-ion — LSJ
nestling, chick
Dim. of νεοσσός, nestling, chick, Arist. HA 536a30: metaph., τοῦ πατρὸς ν. ‘chip of the old block’, Ar. Av. 767, cf. Thphr. Char. 2.6.
2 yolk
yolk of an egg, Men. 42 (prob.), Diph. 121, Hsch.
The corpus record
νεοσσ-ίον
neossion · τό
nestling, chick
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Where it lives
- Birds 2 · 1.88/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- νεοττία · neottia Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 449)
- νεοττίον · neottion Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 587)
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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