1. πάταγος · patagos — Beekes
The corpus record
πάταγος
patagos
clatter, crash, rattle
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Where it lives
- Seven Against Thebes 2 · 3.97/10k
- De Mundo 1 · 1.58/10k
- Acharnians 1 · 1.41/10k
- Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k
- Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
- Lysistrata 1 · 1.26/10k
- Peace 1 · 1.26/10k
- Clouds 1 · 1.04/10k
- Iliad 4 · 0.36/10k
- Histories 3 · 0.16/10k
What it meant
2. πάταγος · patagos — Chantraine
3. πάταγος · patagos — Frisk
4. πάτᾰγος · patagos — LSJ
clatter, crash, as of trees falling, π. δέ τε ἀγνυμενάων (sc. γίγνεται) Il. 16.769 ; π. δέ τε γίγνετʼ ὀδόντων chattering of the teeth, 13.283 ; plash of a body falling into water, ἐν δʼ ἔπεσον μεγάλῳ π. 21.9, cf. Pi. P. 1.24 ; rattle or crash of thunder, Ar. Nu. 382, cf. Arist. Mu. 395a13 ; π. ἀνέμων D.H. Comp. 16 ; rumbling caused by flatulence, Hp. VM 22 ; but never of the human voice (exc. in late Greek, βληχᾶσθαι καὶ κρώζειν ἐν ὑποκρίσει τὸν ἔξηχον π. Porph. Chr. 35) : hence βοῇ καὶ πατάγῳ χ
In the wild
- πάταγος · patagos Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 103
- πάταγον · patagon Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 239–241
- πάταγος · patagos Aristophanes, Acharnians *dikaio/polos (DIORISIS sentence 412)
- πατάγου · patagou Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 331)
- πατάγου · patagou Aristophanes, Lysistrata 3.327 (DIORISIS sentence 248)
- πάταγον · patagon Aristophanes, Peace (DIORISIS sentence 108)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. πάταγος (scan pp. 1207-1208; entry #4841).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. πάταγος (scan p. 879; entry #6315).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. πάταγος (scan pp. 1451-1452; entry #4516).
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