The corpus record

θύελλα

thuella

thunderstorm, hurricane

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Where it lives

Shield of Heracles 1 · 3.09/10k
Theogony 2 · 2.9/10k
Hebrews 1 · 1.99/10k
Works and Days 1 · 1.73/10k
Odyssey 14 · 1.61/10k
De Mundo 1 · 1.58/10k
Suppliants 1 · 1.42/10k
Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
Electra 1 · 1.15/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. θύελλα · thyella — Beekes

θύελλα [f.] ‘thunderstorm, hurricane’ (IL, Arist.). «1ὸὲ *d"euh,- ‘storm, rage, dash’> *COMP θνελλό-πους (Nonn.) after ἀελλό-πο(υ)ς (© 409) et al. *DER θυελλώδης (sch. S.) like ἀελλώδης (sch. 11.) *ETYM From θύω ‘storm, rage, dash’, perhaps based on » ἄελλα, in which the suffix in -l- was inherited. — [Beekes, s.v. θύελλα, p. 609]

2. θύελλ-α · thyell-a — LSJ

hurricane, squall, thunderstorms

hurricane, squall (cf. Arist. Mu. 395a6), κακὴ ἀνέμοιο Il. 6.346, al.; μισγομένων ἀνέμων . . θ. Od. 5.317; πυρός τʼ ὀλοοῖο θύελλαι, prob. thunderstorms, 12.68; κούρας ἀνέλοντο θ. 20.66; τοὺς δʼ αἶψʼ ἁρπάξασα φέρεν πόντονδε θ. 10.48, cf. S. El. 1151; ποντία θ. Id. OC 1660; in similes, φλογὶ ἶσοι ἠὲ θυέλλῃ Il. 13.39; ἴκελοι πυρὶ ἠὲ θ. Hes. Sc. 345: metaph., ἄτης θύελλαι (nisi leg. θυηλαί, q. v.) A. Ag. 819; ὀχλικὴ θ. Phld. Rh. 1.184S.

In the wild

θύελλαι · thyellai Aeschylus, Agamemnon 819
θύελλα · thyella Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 74)
θυέλλαισιν · thyellaisin Euripides, Bacchae 346–350
θύελλα · thyella Euripides, Heracles 904–905
θύελλα · thyella Euripides, Suppliants (DIORISIS sentence 491)
θυέλλῃ · thyellēi Shield of Heracles 345–346

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Where it came from

Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. θύελλα (scan p. 609; entry #2625).

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