The corpus record

νιφόεις

niphoeis

snowy, snowclad

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Where it lives

Theogony 4 · 5.81/10k
Oedipus Tyrannus 1 · 1.08/10k
Clouds 1 · 1.04/10k
Iliad 4 · 0.36/10k
Odyssey 1 · 0.12/10k

What it meant

νῐφό-εις · nipho-eis — LSJ

snowy, snowclad

snowy, snowclad, Κρήτης ὄρεα νιφόεντα Od. 19.338; κατʼ Οὐλύμπου ν. Il. 18.616; ν. Ὀλύμπου Hes. Th. 117; ὤρανος ν. Alc. 17; ν. Αἴτνα Pi. P. 1.20; Παρνασός S. OT 473 (lyr.); σκόπελος Ar. Nu. 273.

II snow-white

snow-white, Ἑλένη (v.l. σελήνη) Ion Trag. 46.

In the wild

νιφόεντα · niphoenta Aristophanes, Clouds 270 (DIORISIS sentence 248)
νιφόεντος · niphoentos Theogony 42
νιφόεντος · niphoentos Theogony 58–62
νιφόεντος · niphoentos Theogony 793–795
νιφόεντι · niphoenti Theogony 950–955
νιφόεντι · niphoenti Iliad 13.754

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Where it came from

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