The corpus record

φάκελος

phakelos · ὁ

bundle, faggot

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Where it lives

Metaphysics 2 · 0.25/10k
Histories 2 · 0.11/10k
History 1 · 0.07/10k

What it meant — LSJ

1. φάκελος · phakelos

bundle, faggot

bundle, faggot, φρυγάνων, ῥάβδων, Hdt. 4.62, 67; ξύλων E. Cyc. 242; δονάκων Opp. H. 4.419 (σφακέλους codd.); ὕλης Th. 2.77; οἱ φ. τῶν ῥάβδων, = Lat. fasces, D.C. 53.1; also written φάκελλος Arist. Metaph. 1016a1 (but φάκελος codd. EJ and Alex.Aphr. and so all codd. in 1042b17), Aen.Tact. 33.1, D.H. 7.11, J. AJ 5.7.4 (v.l. φακέλους), Polyaen. 7.6.9, but the form φάκελος is corroborated by Phld. Rh. 1.74 S., Edict.Diocl. 32.26, and required by the metre in E. and Opp. ll.cc.; distd. from σφάκελος

= φακιόλιον, Phot., Suid.

2. φάκηλος · phakēlos

the middle finger

the middle finger, PLond. 1821.297.

In the wild

φάκελος · phakelos Aristotle, Metaphysics book 5 (DIORISIS sentence 1163)
φάκελος · phakelos Aristotle, Metaphysics book 8 (DIORISIS sentence 2150)
φάκελοι · phakeloi Herodotus, Histories 4.62.1 (DIORISIS sentence 4446)
φακέλους · phakelous Herodotus, Histories 4.67.1 (DIORISIS sentence 4478)
φακέλους · phakelous Thucydides, History 2.77.3 (DIORISIS sentence 1500)

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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