πρηστήρ · prēstēr — LSJ
hurricane, waterspout attended with lightning, tornado
The corpus record
πρηστήρ
prester · ὁ
hurricane, waterspout attended with lightning, tornado
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Distribution
- De Mundo 3 · 4.73/10k
- Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
- Lysistrata 1 · 1.26/10k
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3 · 0.28/10k
- Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k
- Histories 1 · 0.05/10k
Senses
Attestations
- πρηστήρων · prēstērōn Theogony 844–846
- πρηστῆρες · prēstēres Herodotus, Histories 7.42.2 (DIORISIS sentence 7343)
- πρηστῆρος · prēstēros Xenophon, Hellenica 1.3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 117)
- πρηστῆρες · prēstēres Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 54)
- πρηστὴρ · prēstēr Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 74)
- πρηστήρ · prēstēr Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 77)
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