1. νωθής · nōthēs — Chantraine
The corpus record
νωθής
nothes
âne (1|. 11,559), d
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Where it lives
- Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
- Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k
- Apology 1 · 1.14/10k
- Timaeus 2 · 0.85/10k
- Statesman 1 · 0.59/10k
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
- Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k
- Enneads 2 · 0.09/10k
- Histories 1 · 0.05/10k
What it meant
2. νωθ-ής · nōth-ēs — LSJ
sluggish, slothful, ὄνος Il. 11.559 ; ν. κῶλον E. HF 819 ; ἵππος -έστερος Pl. Ap. 30e ; ν. κίνησις Arist. HA 503b8 ; τὰ γόνατα νωθής Luc. Luct. 16 ; of fire, dull, opp. ὀξύς, Thphr. HP 5.9.3 (Comp.) ; of earth, opp. water, etc., Pl. Ti. 86a (Sup.).
of the understanding, dull, stupid, κατεφαίνετο εἶναι -έστερος (sc. ὁ παῖς) Hdt. 3.53 ; νωθὴς τὸν νόον Hp. Ep. 17, cf. A. Pr. 62, Pl. Plt. 310e (Comp.).
neut. νωθές as Adv., Poll. 4.81 : Sup. -έστατα D.C. 59.4.
In the wild
- νωθέστερος · nōthesteros Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 61–62
- νωθέστατον · nōthestaton Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 9.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7720)
- νωθὲς · nōthes Euripides, Heracles 818–819
- νωθέστερος · nōthesteros Herodotus, Histories 3.53.1 (DIORISIS sentence 3259)
- νωθής · nōthēs Iliad 11.559
- νωθεστέρῳ · nōthesterōi Plato, Apology 30
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Where it came from
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. νωθής (scan p. 778; entry #5705).
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