drop
drop, Il. 11.536, Hes. Th. 183, Pi. Pae. 7.9, Zos.Alch. p.175 B.
II grain, bit
of solids, grain, bit, κονίης ῥαθάμιγγες Il. 23.502.
III spot, speckle
spot, speckle, Opp. C. 2.559, 3.299.
The corpus record
ῥαθάμιγξ
rathamigx · ἡ
drop, grain, bit, spot, speckle
Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
- Iliad 3 · 0.27/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ῥαθάμιγγες · rhathaminges Theogony 183
- ῥαθάμιγγες · rhathaminges Iliad 11.536
- ῥαθάμιγγες · rhathaminges Iliad 20.501
- ῥαθάμιγγες · rhathaminges Iliad 23.502
Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. ῥαθάμιγξ (scan p. 1322; entry #5277).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ῥαθάμιγξ (scan pp. 984-985; entry #6920).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ῥαθάμιγξ (scan pp. 1610-1611; entry #4935).