LOGOI

The corpus record

ῥίς

ris · ἡ

nose, snout, nose

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Where it lives

  • Canticum 1 · 5.14/10k
  • Symposium 3 · 3.15/10k
  • Sapientia Salomonis 2 · 2.9/10k
  • Metaphysics 19 · 2.42/10k
  • Hippias Minor 1 · 2.3/10k
  • Job 3 · 2.25/10k
  • On Hunting 2 · 2.2/10k
  • On the Art of Horsemanship 1 · 1.44/10k
  • De Sensu et Sensibilibus 1 · 1.28/10k
  • Ajax 1 · 1.27/10k
  • Symposium 2 · 1.15/10k
  • Proverbia 1 · 0.9/10k

Densest 12 of 28 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

nose, snout, nose

nose or snout of men and beasts, Il. 5.291, Od. 4.445, Hdt. 3.154, Ar. Pax 21, Pl. Prt. 329d, etc.; ἕλκειν τινὰ τῆς ῥινός lead him by the nose, Luc. Herm. 73; ἕλκεσθαι τῆς ῥ. ib. 68; μὴ τὴν χολὴν ἐπὶ ῥινὸς ἔχʼ εὐθύς Herod. 6.37.

2 nostrils, nose

in pl. nostrils, but freq., like Lat. nares, nose, Il. 16.503, Od. 5.456, al., Hes. Sc. 267, S. Aj. 918, Ar. Nu. 344, etc.; στόμα τε ῥῖνές τε Il. 14.467, cf. 23.395, al., Pl. Ti. 79e.

II brow, spur of land

prob. brow of a hill or projecting spur of land, IG 14.352 ii 36, al. (Halaesa).—A later nom. form is ῥίν, Hp. Vict. 1.23 (prob. f.l. for ῥῖνες), Aret. CA 1.2, Luc. Asin. 12; as name of a bandage, Sor. Fasc. 11. [ῑ, but ῐ in AP 11.418 (Trajan).]

In the wild

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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.

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