νυκτερ-ίς · nykter-is — LSJ
bat
bat, Od. 12.433, 24.6, Hdt. 2.76, etc. ; applied to a person, Χαιρεφῶν ἡ ν. Ar. Av. 1564 (lyr.).
II
a fish, = καλλιώνυμος, Opp. H. 2.205.
III
a plant, = μύρον Ἑλένης, Aët. 12.1.
The corpus record
νυκτερ-ίς
nukteris · ἡ
bat
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Where it lives
- Epistula Jeremiae 1 · 7.94/10k
- Birds 2 · 1.88/10k
- Leviticus 1 · 0.53/10k
- Deuteronomium 1 · 0.45/10k
- Isaias 1 · 0.38/10k
- Republic 3 · 0.34/10k
- Odyssey 2 · 0.23/10k
- Histories 3 · 0.16/10k
- Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k
- Metaphysics 1 · 0.13/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- νυκτερίς · nykteris Aristophanes, Birds 1 (DIORISIS sentence 956)
- νυκτερίς · nykteris Aristophanes, Birds 1 (DIORISIS sentence 1147)
- νυκτερίδων · nykteridōn Aristotle, Metaphysics book 2 (DIORISIS sentence 362)
- νυκτερίδος · nykteridos Herodotus, Histories 2.76.2 (DIORISIS sentence 2081)
- νυκτερίσι · nykterisi Herodotus, Histories 3.110.1 (DIORISIS sentence 3718)
- νυκτερίδες · nykterides Herodotus, Histories 4.183.4 (DIORISIS sentence 5235)
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Where it came from
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