1. πάσσαλος · passalos — Beekes
The corpus record
πάσσαλος
passalos
plug, pin, peg
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Where it lives
- Judices (cod. Al.) 7 · 4.79/10k
- Exodus 7 · 2.96/10k
- Ecclesiazusae 2 · 2.62/10k
- Wasps 2 · 2.06/10k
- Siracides 3 · 1.63/10k
- Thesmophoriazusae 1 · 1.42/10k
- Hecuba 1 · 1.4/10k
- Knights 1 · 1.13/10k
- Numeri 2 · 0.87/10k
- Isaias 2 · 0.76/10k
- Odyssey 4 · 0.46/10k
- Deuteronomium 1 · 0.45/10k
Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. πάσσαλος · passalos — Chantraine
3. πάσσαλος · passalos — Frisk
4. πάσσαλος · passalos — Frisk
5. πάσσᾰλος · passalos — LSJ
peg on which to hang clothes, arms, etc., ἀπὸ πασσαλόφι ζυγὸν ᾕρεον Il. 24.268, cf. 5.209 ; ἀπὸ πασσάλου αἴνυτο τόξον Od. 21.53 ; ἀπὸ φόρμιγγα πασσάλου λάμβανʼ Pi. O. 1.17, cf. B. Scol.Oxy. 1361.1.1 ; ἐκ πασσαλόφι κρέμασεν φόρμιγγα Od. 8.67 ; χαλινοὺς . . ἐκ πασσάλων δέουσι Hdt. 4.72, v. ἐκ I.6 ; [χιτῶνα] πασσάλῳ ἀγκρεμάσασα Od. 1.440 ; κύλιξ . . κρέμαται περὶ πασσαλόφιν Hermipp. 55 ; ἐπὶ τῶν παττάλων Arist. PA 681a25 ; παττάλους ἐνέκρουεν εἰς τὸν τοῖχον Ar. V. 129 ; peg for making a hole in a v
from the likeness of form,
membrum virile, Ar. Ec. 1020, AP 5.128 (Autom.).
= ἵππος ὀρθόκωλος, Hippiatr. 115.
In the wild
- παττάλου · pattalou Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 2 (DIORISIS sentence 840)
- πάτταλον · pattalon Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae (DIORISIS sentence 212)
- πάτταλον · pattalon Aristophanes, Knights 375 (DIORISIS sentence 324)
- πάτταλον · pattalon Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae (DIORISIS sentence 204)
- παττάλου · pattalou Aristophanes, Wasps (DIORISIS sentence 566)
- παττάλους · pattalous Aristophanes, Wasps (DIORISIS sentence 84)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. πάσσαλος (scan p. 1206; entry #4835).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. πάσσαλος (scan p. 877; entry #6306).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. πάσσαλος (scan pp. 1449-1450; entry #4511).
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