Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

κονίσαλος

Second declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κονίσαλος

Etym.: ko/nis

Sense

  1. a cloud of dust

Examples

  • σὺ δ’ εἶ πότερον ἄνθρωποσ ἢ κονίσαλοσ; (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Lyric-Scene, iambics3)
  • τοῦ δ’ ἦν ἑλκομένοιο κονίσαλοσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 1890)
  • ὣσ ἄρα τῶν ὑπὸ ποσσὶ κονίσαλοσ ὄρνυτ’ ἀελλὴσ ἐρχομένων· (Homer, Iliad, Book 3 3:2)
  • τοῦ δ’ ἦν ἑλκομένοιο κονίσαλοσ, ἀμφὶ δὲ χαῖται κυάνεαι πίτναντο, κάρη δ’ ἅπαν ἐν κονίῃσι κεῖτο πάροσ χαρίεν· (Homer, Iliad, Book 22 37:4)

Synonyms

  1. a cloud of dust

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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