The corpus record

νιφετός

niphetos · ὁ

falling snow, snowstorm

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Where it lives

Odae 2 · 4.92/10k
De Mundo 2 · 3.15/10k
Daniel (LXX) 1 · 0.95/10k
Deuteronomium 1 · 0.45/10k
Odyssey 1 · 0.12/10k
Histories 2 · 0.11/10k
Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

νῐφ-ετός · niph-etos — LSJ

falling snow, snowstorm

falling snow, snowstorm, ὄμβρον . . ἠὲ χάλαζαν ἢ νιφετόν Il. 10.7; οὐ νιφετός, οὔτʼ ἂρ χειμὼν πολὺς οὔτε ποτʼ ὄμβρος Od. 4.566, cf. Pi. Fr. 107.11, Hdt. 4.50, 8.98, Arist. Mete. 349a9, etc.: pl., OGI 199.7 (Adule).

2 rain

rain, Nonn. D. 6.267, 8.260.

metaph., ν. λημμάτων Lib. Or. 57.48.

In the wild

νιφετὸς · niphetos Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 60)
νιφετοῦ · niphetou Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 61)
νιφετῷ · niphetōi Herodotus, Histories 4.50.2 (DIORISIS sentence 4391)
νιφετός · niphetos Herodotus, Histories 8.98.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8994)
νιφετόν · nipheton Iliad 10.7
νιφετός · niphetos Odyssey 4.566

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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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