1. σβέννυμι · sbennymi — Beekes
The corpus record
σβέννυμι
sbennumi
to quench, extinguish
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Where it lives
- 1 Thessalonians 1 · 6.88/10k
- Job 8 · 6/10k
- De juventute et senectute, De vita et morte 1 · 5.44/10k
- Canticum 1 · 5.14/10k
- Ephesians 1 · 4.15/10k
- Machabaeorum IV 3 · 3.89/10k
- Proverbia 4 · 3.6/10k
- De Respiratione 2 · 3.29/10k
- Amos 1 · 3.25/10k
- De Mundo 2 · 3.15/10k
- Sapientia Salomonis 2 · 2.9/10k
- Meditations 7 · 2.41/10k
Densest 12 of 35 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. σβέννῦμι · sbennymi — Chantraine
3. σβέννῦμι · sbennymi — Chantraine
4. σβέννυμι · sbennymi — Frisk
5. σβέννῡμι · sbennymi — LSJ
quench, put out, used by Hom. in the literal sense only in compd. κατα-σβέννυμι (q.v.); σ. τὸ καιόμενον Hdt. 2.66; κεραυνόν Pi. P. 1.6; φλόγα Th. 2.77, A.R. 4.668.
of liquids, dry up, ἡ Μηδικὴ πόα σ. τὸ γάλα Arist. HA 522b25, cf. AP 9.549 (Antiphil.).
generally and metaph., quench, quell, check, κεῖνός γʼ οὐκ ἐθέλει σβέσσαι χόλον Il. 9.678; ἀνθρώπων σβέσσαι μένος 16.621; ὕβριν Simon. (132) ap. Hdt. 5.77, cf. Orac. ap. eund. 8.77, Heraclit. 43, Pl. Lg. 835e; εἰ μὴ θεῶν τις τήνδε πεῖραν ἔσβεσεν S. Aj. 1057; ὡς φόνῳ σβέσῃ φόνον E. HF 40; ἔσβεσε κύματα νήνεμος αἴθρη Ar. Av. 778; σ. αὔξην καὶ ἐπιρροήν Pl. Lg. 783b; τὸν θυμόν ib. 888a; καῦμα (in the bowels) Hp. Acut. 54; ὁ βορέας σ. τὴν θερμότητα Arist. Mete. 347b4; λιθάργυρον ὄξει ἢ οἴνῳ σ. coolin
Pass. σβέννυμαι (with intr. tenses of Act., v. supr.), to be quenched, go out, of fire, οὐδέ ποτʼ ἔσβη πῦρ Il. 9.471; of inflamed pustules, go down, disappear, Hp. Acut. (Sp.) 26; ἰχθύων . . ᾠὰ μετὰ ἁλῶν σβεσθέντα (s.v.l.) καὶ ἐποπτηθέντα Diph.Siph. ap. Ath. 3.121c: metaph. of men, become extinct, die, AP 7.20 (Simon.?); of a city, ib. 9.178 (Antiphil.).
of liquids, run dry, γάλα Arist. HA 587b28; πηγαί AP 9.128; αἷμα Plu. Adul. 2.49d; αἶγες σβεννύμεναι goats which are going off their milk, Hes. Op. 590.
generally, to be quelled or lulled, of wind, οὐδέ ποτʼ ἔσβη οὖρος Od. 3.182; of sound, σβέννυτο θωρήκων ἐνοπή Tryph. 10: metaph., τὸ μάχιμον σβεννύμενον ὑπὸ γήρως Plu. Pomp. 8; ἐσβέσθη Νίκανδρος his charm is quenched, AP 12.39; of an orator, D.H. Pomp. 4; ἐσβέσθη τὰ φίλτρα AP 7.221, cf. Philostr. VA 1.33, Longin. 21.1; of legal proceedings, to be cancelled, διὰ τὸ ἐσβέσθαι πᾶν σπέρμα δίκης PMonac. 1.43 (vi A.D.). (I.-E. zgṷes-, cf. ζείναμεν· σβέννυμεν, Hsch., Lith. gèsti ‘to be extinguished’.)
In the wild
- σβεννύναι · sbennynai Aristotle, De juventute et senectute, De vita et morte (DIORISIS sentence 42)
- σβέννυνται · sbennyntai Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 21)
- σβέννυται · sbennytai Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 86)
- σβεννύναι · sbennynai Aristotle, De Respiratione (DIORISIS sentence 199)
- σβέννυται · sbennytai Aristotle, De Respiratione (DIORISIS sentence 81)
- σβέννυται · sbennytai Aristotle, De Sensu et Sensibilibus (DIORISIS sentence 27)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. σβέννυμι (scan pp. 1365-1366; entry #5449). Root candidates: *sg’es-.
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. σβέννυμι (scan p. 1012; entry #7139). Root candidates: *ges-.
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. σβέννυμι (scan pp. 1657-1658; entry #5088).