The corpus record

πάχν-η

pachne · ἡ

hoar-frost, rime

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Where it lives

De Mundo 2 · 3.15/10k
Sapientia Salomonis 2 · 2.9/10k
Odae 1 · 2.46/10k
On Hunting 2 · 2.2/10k
Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
Job 2 · 1.5/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
Daniel (LXX) 1 · 0.95/10k
Psalmi 2 · 0.58/10k
Symposium 1 · 0.57/10k
Economics 1 · 0.56/10k
Siracides 1 · 0.54/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

hoar-frost, rime

hoar-frost, rime (defined as frozen rain, Posidon. ap. D.L. 7.153), Od. 14.476 ; π. ἑῴα A. Pr. 25 ; τὸ ἐπὶ γῆς συμπαγὲν ἐκ δρόσου γενόμενον π. λέγεται Pl. Ti. 59e ; opp. κρύσταλλος, Theognet. 1.3 : pl., πάχναι καὶ χάλαζαι Pl. Smp. 188b ; ἀπέκαυσεν ἡ π. τὰς ἀμπέλους Philippid. 25.4.

2 frost, clotted blood

metaph., γήρως εὐρῶτα καὶ πάχνην the mould and frost of age, descriptive of an old manʼs grey hair, Com.Adesp. 650a, cf. 381 ; π. κουροβόρος clotted blood of the eaten children, A. Ag. 1512 (lyr.).

In the wild

πάχνᾳ · pachnai Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1509–1512
πάχνην · pachnēn Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 23–25
πάχναι · pachnai Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 23)
πάχνη · pachnē Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 57)
πάχνη · pachnē Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 9128)
πάχνην · pachnēn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 6494)

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Where it came from

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