1. νεφέλη · nephelē — Beekes
The corpus record
νεφέλη
nephele
cloud, mass of clouds
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Where it lives
- Jude 1 · 22.47/10k
- Nahum 1 · 10.83/10k
- Birds 11 · 10.32/10k
- Exodus 21 · 8.87/10k
- Numeri 20 · 8.66/10k
- Sophonias 1 · 8.45/10k
- Epistula Jeremiae 1 · 7.94/10k
- Revelation 7 · 7.08/10k
- 1 Thessalonians 1 · 6.88/10k
- Joel 1 · 6.49/10k
- Siracides 10 · 5.42/10k
- Osee 2 · 5.31/10k
Densest 12 of 56 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. νεφελή · nephelē — Chantraine
3. Νεφέλη · Nephelē — Chantraine
4. νεφέλη · nephelē — Frisk
5. νεφέλη · nephelē — Frisk
6. νεφέλη · nephelē — LSJ
cloud, mass of clouds (distd. from ὁμίχλη, mist or fog, Arist. Mete. 346b33), Il. 15.20, Hes. Th. 745, etc.; ν. κυανέη, πορφυρέη, Od. 12.75, Il. 17.551; ἐριβρόμου νεφέλας στρατός Pi. P. 6.11; νεφέλαι πόκοις ἐρίων ὁμοῖαι Thphr. Sign. 13.—Mostly poet., but found in X. An. 1.8.8, Arist., Thphr. ll. cc., and in late Prose, Plu. Max. cum princip. 2.777e, Philostr. Ep. 24.
metaph., νεφέλη δέ μιν ἀμφεκάλυψε κυανέη, of death, Il. 20.417; τὸν δʼ ἄχεος νεφέλη ἐκάλυψε μέλαινα a cloud of sorrow, 17.591, cf. S. Ant. 528 (anap.); πολέμου ν. Simon. 89; φόνου ν. Pi. N. 9.38, cf. I. 7(6).27; Κενταύρου φονίᾳ νεφέλᾳ, i.e. with his blood, S. Tr. 831 (lyr.); κελαινῶπις ν., of sleep, Pi. P. 1.7.
of clouds in urine, Hp. Prog. 12, Gal. 6.252.
= νεφέλιον II.2, Hp. Prorrh. 2.20.
cloud on a mirror, Arist. Insomn. 459b30.
fine bird-net, in pl., Ar. Av. 194, 528 (anap.), Call. Aet. 3.1.37 [Fr. 75.37 Pf.], Gal. UP 1.2, Ath. 1.25d: in sg., AP 6.11 (Satyr.), 109 (Antip.), 185 (Zos.).
Alchem., sublimate, Ps.-Democr.Alch. p.50 B.
In the wild
- νεφελᾶν · nephelan Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 227–229
- νεφέλας · nephelas Aristophanes, Birds 1 (DIORISIS sentence 1103)
- νεφέλαισιν · nephelaisin Aristophanes, Birds 1 (DIORISIS sentence 1187)
- νεφελῶν · nephelōn Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 1011)
- νεφελῶν · nephelōn Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 1012)
- νεφέλας · nephelas Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 174)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. νεφέλη (scan p. 1063; entry #4315).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. νεφέλη (scan pp. 1281-1282; entry #4078).
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