1. ὀμίχλη · omichlē — Beekes
The corpus record
ὁμίχλη
omichle
fog
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Where it lives
- 2 Peter 1 · 9.23/10k
- Sophonias 1 · 8.45/10k
- Joel 1 · 6.49/10k
- Amos 1 · 3.25/10k
- De Mundo 2 · 3.15/10k
- Clouds 2 · 2.08/10k
- Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
- Timaeus 4 · 1.69/10k
- Job 2 · 1.5/10k
- Sapientia Salomonis 1 · 1.45/10k
- De aere aquis et locis 1 · 1.35/10k
- Knights 1 · 1.13/10k
Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. ὀμίχλη · omichlē — Chantraine
3. ᾿Ομίχλη · ᾿Omichlē — Chantraine
4. ὀμίχλη · omichlē — Frisk
5. ὀμίχλ-η · omichl-ē — LSJ
mist, fog (not so thick as νέφος or νεφέλη, Arist. Mete. 346b33, cf. Mu. 394a19), Hom. only in Il. ; εὖτʼ ὄρεος κορυφῇσι Νότος κατέχευεν ὀμίχλην 3.10 ; so Thetis rises from the sea, ἠΰτʼ ὀμίχλη 1.359 ; ὁ. καὶ δρόσος Ar. Nu. 330 ; κονίης ὀμίχλην Il. 13.336 ; ὀμίχλη ἐγένετο X. An. 4.2.7, etc. : metaph., ὄσσοις ὁμίχλα προσῇξε πλήρης δακρύων A. Pr. 145 (lyr.).
cloud-like darkness, gloom, κατὰ νυκτὸς ὀ. AP 5.228 (Maced.), cf. Orph. A. 521, etc.
the steam of cookery, Mnesim. 4.64. (Cf. Lith. miglà ‘mist.)
In the wild
- ὀμίχλα · omichla Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 144–149
- ὁμίχλην · homichlēn Aristophanes, Clouds 330 (DIORISIS sentence 281)
- Ὁμίχλην · Homichlēn Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 642)
- ὁμίχλης · homichlēs Aristophanes, Knights (DIORISIS sentence 581)
- ὁμίχλαι · homichlai Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 54)
- ὁμίχλη · homichlē Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 55)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. ὁμίχλη (scan p. 1128; entry #4551).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ὁμίχλη (scan p. 815; entry #5916).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ὁμίχλη (scan p. 1359; entry #4257). Root candidates: *migh-, *moigho-.
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