1. σίαλον · sialon — Beekes
The corpus record
σίαλον
sialon
spittle, slobber
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Where it lives
- On the Sacred Disease 1 · 2.18/10k
- Regnorum I 1 · 0.54/10k
- Memorabilia 1 · 0.28/10k
- Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
- Odyssey 2 · 0.23/10k
- Iliad 2 · 0.18/10k
What it meant
2. σίαλον · sialon — Chantraine
3. σίαλον · sialon — Frisk
4. σίαλον · sialon — Frisk
5. σῐᾰλ-ον · sial-on — LSJ
spittle, saliva, Hp. Aph. 7.16, Pherecr. 69, X. Mem. 1.2.54; σιάλῳ παιδία παραλείφειν Democrates ap. Arist. Rh. 1407a8.
synovial fluid, Hp. Carn. 10. [Att. σίαλον, τό, Hellenic σίελος, ὁ, acc. to Moer. p.347P.; the latter occurs LXX Is. 40.15 (neut. σίελον cod.A), Aret. SD 2.2, PMag.Par. 1.132: pl. τὰ σίελα LXX 1 Ki. 21.13.]
In the wild
- σιάλῳ · sialōi Aristotle, Rhetoric 3
- σίελον · sielon Hippocrates, On the Sacred Disease 5 (DIORISIS sentence 81)
- σιάλοιο · sialoio Iliad 21.363
- σιάλοιο · sialoio Iliad 9.208
- σιάλοισιν · sialoisin Odyssey 10.390
- σιάλων · sialōn Odyssey 14.19
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. σίαλον (scan p. 1377; entry #5493).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. σίαλον (scan p. 1020; entry #7206).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. σίαλον (scan pp. 1671-1672; entry #5127).
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