1. νόσος · nosos — Beekes
The corpus record
νόσος
nosos
illness, disease; distress, need
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Where it lives
- On the Sacred Disease 24 · 52.3/10k
- De longitudine et brevitate vitae 4 · 22.71/10k
- Alcibiades 2 9 · 21.09/10k
- Aegineticus 6 · 20.66/10k
- Philoctetes 18 · 20.45/10k
- Prometheus Bound 11 · 18.71/10k
- De aere aquis et locis 12 · 16.2/10k
- Trachiniae 10 · 13.76/10k
- Susanna (LXX) 1 · 13.09/10k
- Categories 12 · 11.95/10k
- Orestes 11 · 11.22/10k
- De Somno et Vigilia 3 · 10.09/10k
Densest 12 of 110 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. νόσος · nosos — Chantraine
3. νόσος · nosos — Frisk
4. νόσος · nosos — LSJ
sickness, disease, plague, νοῦσον ἀνὰ στρατὸν ὦρσε κακήν (sc. Apollo), ὀλέκοντο δὲ λαοί Il. 1.10; νοῦσόν γʼ οὔ πως ἔστι Διὸς μεγάλου ἀλέασθαι Od. 9.411; δολιχὴ ν. 11.172; νοῦσοι ἀργαλέαι Hes. Op. 92:— Phrases: ἐς ν. πεσεῖν A. Pr. 473; ἐς ν. ἐμπίπτειν Antipho 1.20; νόσον ἐμπεπτωκέναι τοῖς κτήνεσιν X. Cyr. 8.3.41; μοι ν. ἐπήλυθεν Od. 11.200; νόσῳ ληφθέντι S. Tr. 445; κάμνειν νόσον, ὑπὸ νόσου, v. κάμνω; ἀσθενεῖν ταύτην τὴν νόσον Isoc. 19.24; ἐκ τῆς νούσου ἀνέστη Hdt. 1.22; θήλεα ν. ib. 105, cf. Hdn
generally, distress, anguish, Hes. Th. 527, S. OC 544 (lyr.), etc.
disease of mind, esp. caused by madness, passion, vice, etc., ν. φρενῶν A. Pers. 750 (troch.); θεία ν., i.e. madness, S. Aj. 185 (lyr.); μανιάσιν ν. ib. 59; λυσσώδη ν. ib. 452; of love, Id. Tr. 491; Ἀφροδίτας ν. E. Hipp. 767 (lyr.); ἀκόλαστον ἔσχε γλῶσσαν, αἰσχίστην ν. Id. Or. 10; τῆς μεγίστης ν., ἀνοίας Pl. Lg. 691d; ν. καὶ στάσιν οὐ ταὐτὸν νενόμικας; Id. Sph. 228a.
plague, bane, mischief, e.g. a whirlwind is θεία ν. S. Ant. 421, cf. 1141 (lyr.); of the trident of Poseidon, A. Pr. 924 (s.v.l.); πεντεσύριγγος ν., of the pillory, Polyeuct. ap. Arist. Rh. 1411a23; κτείνειν τινὰ ὡς νόσον πόλεως Pl. Prt. 322d.
In the wild
- νόσος · nosos Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1002–1004
- νόσον · noson Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1014–1016
- νόσου · nosou Aeschylus, Agamemnon 542
- νόσον · noson Aeschylus, Agamemnon 834–837
- νόσου · nosou Aeschylus, Agamemnon 848–850
- νόσος · nosos Aeschylus, Eumenides 940–945
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. νόσος (scan pp. 1074-1075; entry #4364). Root candidates: *noswo-, *anoswo-.
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. νόσος (scan p. 774; entry #5677).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. νόσος (scan pp. 1295-1296; entry #4113).
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