Νεφέλη

Where it lives

• Clouds 13 · 13.51/10k
• Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

This reads as a proper name — a river, a person, a place — held only because the corpus attests it. It stands outside the library's subject, the vocabulary of the soul, so no lexicon entry is recorded.

In the wild

• Νεφέλαι · Nephelai Aristophanes, Clouds 1.275 (DIORISIS sentence 250)
• Νεφελᾶν · Nephelan Aristophanes, Clouds 335 (DIORISIS sentence 283)
• Νεφελᾶν · Nephelan Aristophanes, Clouds 335 (DIORISIS sentence 283)
• Νεφέλαι · Nephelai Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 1126)
• Νεφέλαισιν · Nephelaisin Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 230)
• Νεφέλαι · Nephelai Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 244)

6 of 14 attestations shown. Ask for more.

Where it came from

• Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. Νεφέλη (scan p. 1063; entry #4315).
• Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Νεφέλη (scan p. 765; entry #5615).
• Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Νεφέλη (scan pp. 1281-1282; entry #4078).

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