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νεοσσός

neossos

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Where it lives

Leviticus 8 · 4.28/10k
Heracles 3 · 3.83/10k
Birds 4 · 3.75/10k
Libation Bearers 2 · 3.72/10k
Odae 1 · 2.46/10k
Job 3 · 2.25/10k
Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
Proverbia 2 · 1.8/10k
Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k
Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
Deuteronomium 3 · 1.34/10k
Machabaeorum IV 1 · 1.3/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. νεοσσός · neossos — Chantraine

νεοσσός : att. νεοττός, la forme ἃ hyphérèse νοσσός {Æsch. fr. 162, S., grec hell. dans composés et dérivés) est blâmée par Phryn. 182 et doit être familière. Sens : «jeune oiseau, poussin», employé par extension pour de jeunes animaux, ou des enfants (Hom., ion.-att., etc.), «jaune d'œuf» (Arist., etc.) Quelques composés νεοσσο-κόμος (AP), -πῶλις (Herod.), -τροφέω, etc. (Ar., etc.). Dérivés : 1. diminutifs : … — [Chantraine, s.v. νεοσσός, p. 763]

2. νεοσσός · neossos — Frisk

νεοσσός, auch γοσσός (Schwyzer 253 m. Lit.), att. νεοττός “das Junge von Vögeln, auch von anderen Tieren und von Menschen’ (seit Il.), ‘Eigelb’ (Arist. u.a.). Einige Kompp., z.B. ν(ε)οσσο-τροφέω (-tr-) "Vogeljunge aufziehen’ (Ar. u.a.). — Ableitungen: 1. Deminutiva: νίε )οσσίον, -ττ- "Küchlein’, auch übertr. ‘Eigelb’ (Ar., Arist., Thphr. u.a.); -σσίς, -ττίς f. ‘ds.’, auch als PN (Kom., Arist., AP), als Bez. eines … — [Frisk, s.v. νεοσσός, p. 1279]

3. νεοσσός · neossos — LSJ

young bird, nestling, chick

young bird, nestling, chick, Il. 2.311, 9.323, S. Ant. 425, Ar. Av. 835, Ev.Luc. 2.24, etc.; ἀπτῆνες ν. Plu. Aud. 2.48a.

2 any young animal, young bees, brood

any young animal, as a young crocodile, Hdt. 2.68; of young children, A. Ch. 256, 501, E. Alc. 403 (lyr.), al., Pl. Lg. 776a: fem., ἦν νεοττὸς καὶ νέα (sc. Lais) Epicr. 3.15: in pl., young bees, X. Oec. 7.34, Arist. HA 624a22; Ἄρεως ν., of the cock, Ar. Av. 835 (also ironically, of a person, Pl.Com. 104): collective, ἵππου ν. the horseʼs brood, A. Ag. 825.

3 yolk

yolk of an egg, Arist. HA 565a3, Orac. ap. Chrysipp.Stoic. 2.344; cf. νεοττίον.—The disyll. form νοσσός is cited in AB 109 from A. Fr. 113 and occurs in S. Oxy. 2081 (b) Fr. 3: this and cogn. forms (commonly found in later Gr.) are condemned as ἀδόκιμα by Phryn. 182.

In the wild

νεοσσός · neossos Aeschylus, Agamemnon 821–826
νεοσσοὺς · neossous Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 255–257
νεοσσοὺς · neossous Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 500–501
νεοσσῶν · neossōn Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 501–503
νεοττοὺς · neottous Aristophanes, Birds 1355 (DIORISIS sentence 995)
νεοττός · neottos Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 631)

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Where it came from

Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. νεοσσός (scan p. 763; entry #5600).
Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. νεοσσός (scan p. 1279; entry #4070).

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