1. σέρφος · serphos — Beekes
The corpus record
σέρφος
serphos
small winged insect, gnat, winged ant
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Where it lives
What it meant
2. σέρφος · serphos — Chantraine
3. σέρφος · serphos — Frisk
4. σέρφος · serphos — LSJ
a small winged insect, prob. a kind of gnat or winged ant, Ar. V. 352 (ubi v. Sch.), Av. 82, 569, Nicopho 1, dub. in Phld. Mort. 34: prov., ἔνεστι κἀν μύρμηκι κἀν σέρφῳ χολή ‘even the gnat has its sting’, Sch. Ar. Av. 82, V. 352, cf. AP 10.49 (Pall.):—written συρφός in Hsch.
In the wild
- σέρφῳ · serphōi Aristophanes, Birds 570 (DIORISIS sentence 463)
- σέρφον · serphon Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 462)
- σέρφους · serphous Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 73)
- σέρφῳ · serphōi Aristophanes, Wasps (DIORISIS sentence 268)
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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