1. ψόφος · psophos — Beekes
The corpus record
ψόφ-ος
psophos
clangour, noise, crash, vain noise, idle babble
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Where it lives
- Ichneutae 5 · 29.09/10k
- De Sensu et Sensibilibus 14 · 17.91/10k
- De Insomniis 3 · 12.57/10k
- Michaeas 1 · 4.39/10k
- De Somno et Vigilia 1 · 3.36/10k
- On the Art of Horsemanship 2 · 2.88/10k
- Fragments 1 · 2.51/10k
- On Hunting 2 · 2.2/10k
- Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
- De Respiratione 1 · 1.65/10k
- De Interpretatione 1 · 1.61/10k
- Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
Densest 12 of 31 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. ψόφος · psophos — Chantraine
3. ψόφος · psophos — Chantraine
4. ψόφος · psophos — Frisk
5. ψόφος · psophos — Frisk
6. ψόφ-ος · psoph-os — LSJ
noise (prop. of one thing striking against another, Arist. de An. 420a21; or of insects, which produce a sound, but not by the larynx, Id. HA 535a28; opp. φωνή, Id. de An. 420b29, HA 535b31, al.; ψόφος μόνον [τὸ σῖγμα] Pl. Tht. 203b, cf. Lg. 669d, Aristox. ap. D.H. Comp. 14); first in h.Merc. 285, ἄτερ ψόφου; γλώσσης ψ. E. HF 229; φιλημάτων S. Fr. 537; ψόφοι ἀνέμων Pl. R. 397a; of rolling stones, X. An. 4.2.4; of footsteps, ψόφῳ τῷ ἐκ τοῦ προσιέναι αὐτοὺς ἀντιπαταγοῦντος τοῦ ἀνέμου Th. 3.22, cf.
mere sound, noise, τοῦ σοῦ ψ. οὐκ ἂν στραφείην your noise will never turn me, S. Aj. 1116; κενὸς ψ. E. Rh. 565; εὐδοξία ψόφος ἐστὶ μαινομένων ἀνθρώπων Diog. ap. Arr. Epict. 1.24.6; ψόφοι mere sounds, of high-sounding words or names, ὁ μὴ φρονῶν . . ψόφοις ἁλίσκεται Men. 737, cf. Alciphr. 2.3, Luc. DMeretr. 15.3, Arr. Epict. 2.6.19; ψόφου πλέως, of Aeschylus, Ar. Nu. 1367; ὁ ψ. τῶν ῥημάτων, of his language, Id. Ra. 492.
In the wild
- ψόφος · psophos Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Β (DIORISIS sentence 2214)
- ψόφος · psophos Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Β (DIORISIS sentence 2226)
- ψόφος · psophos Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Β (DIORISIS sentence 2196)
- ψόφος · psophos Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Β (DIORISIS sentence 2228)
- ψόφων · psophōn Aristotle, De Insomniis (DIORISIS sentence 28)
- ψόφος · psophos Aristotle, De Insomniis (DIORISIS sentence 2)
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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.