1. ὄρχις · orchis — Beekes
The corpus record
ὄρχις
orchis
testicles
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Where it lives
- Against Conon 1 · 3.15/10k
- Lysistrata 2 · 2.52/10k
- On the Art of Horsemanship 1 · 1.44/10k
- De aere aquis et locis 1 · 1.35/10k
- Peace 1 · 1.26/10k
- Plutus 1 · 1.24/10k
- Clouds 1 · 1.04/10k
- Wasps 1 · 1.03/10k
- Histories 1 · 0.05/10k
What it meant
2. ὄρχις · orchis — Chantraine
3. ὄρχις · orchis — Frisk
4. ὄρχις · orchis — LSJ
testicle, freq. in pl., testicles, Hdt. 4.109, Hp. Aër. 4, Eub. 63.4 (anap.), etc. ; cf. ὄσχις.
in females, ovaries, Gal. 2.810, al.
plant so called from the form of its root, salep, Orchis papilionacea, and O. longicruris, Thphr. HP 9.18.3, Dsc. 3.126.
ὄρχις, ἡ, a kind of olive, Colum. 5.8; cf. ὀρχάς (B). (Cf. Avest. arazi ‘testicles’.)
In the wild
- ὄρχεις · orcheis Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 547)
- ὄρχεων · orcheōn Aristophanes, Lysistrata 362 (DIORISIS sentence 266)
- ὄρχεις · orcheis Aristophanes, Lysistrata 962 (DIORISIS sentence 773)
- ὄρχεις · orcheis Aristophanes, Peace (DIORISIS sentence 538)
- ὄρχεων · orcheōn Aristophanes, Plutus 2a (DIORISIS sentence 243)
- ὄρχεις · orcheis Aristophanes, Wasps (DIORISIS sentence 772)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. ὄρχις (scan p. 1167; entry #4683).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ὄρχις (scan pp. 847-848; entry #6083).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ὄρχις (scan pp. 1405-1406; entry #4362).
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