βήξ
νὺξ μὲν ἐμὸν κατέχει ζωῆς φάος ὑπνοδοτείρη → sleep-giving night hath quenched my light of life | sleep-giving night covers my light of life | night, the giver of sleep, holds the light of my life
English (LSJ)
βηχός,
A cough, ὁ, Th.2.49; ἡ, Hp.Prog.14, Phryn.Com.60, Arist.de An.420b33, Thphr.HP3.18.3.
German (Pape)
[Seite 442] βηχός, ἡ, der Husten, Arist. de an. 2, 8 u. Sp.; als masc., μετὰ βηχὸς ἰσχυροῦ Thuc. 2, 49, u. sonst; s. Lob. Paralip. p. 101.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
βήξ: βηχός, (βήσσω) κ. βήχας· τὸ γένος ἀβέβαιον ἐν Ἱππ. Προγν. 41, Ἀφ. 1247· ἀρσεν. παρὰ Θουκ. 2. 49· θηλ. παρὰ Φρυν. Κωμ. ἐν Ἀδήλ. 6, Ἀριστ. Ψυχ. 2. 8, 11, Θεοφρ. Ἱστ. Φ. 3. 18, 3.
French (Bailly abrégé)
βηχός (ἡ ou ὁ)
toux.
Étymologie: cf. βήσσω.
Spanish (DGE)
-χός, ἡ
• Morfología: [ὁ Th.2.49; sg. ac. βῆκα PMag.7.203]
tos ἰσχυρός Th.l.c., ξηρή Hp.Epid.1.1, ὀξείη Hp.Int.8, σκληρή Hp.Morb.2.60, cf. Phryn.Com.64, σπασμώδης I.BI 1.662, ἐνδελεχής Plu.2.461b
•como ejemplo de sonido no significativo, Arist.de An.420b33, cf. Thphr.HP 3.18.3, πρός βῆκα contra la tos, PMag.l.c.
• Etimología: Origen onomat.
Greek Monotonic
βήξ: βηχός, ὁ και ἡ (βήσσω), βήχας, βήξιμο, σε Θουκ.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
βήξ: βηχός ὁ и ἡ кашель Thuc., Arst., Plut.
Frisk Etymological English
βηχός
Grammatical information: m. f.
Meaning: coughing (Th.).
Other forms: also βηκός, s. Schulze Kl. Schr. 703)
Derivatives: Demin. βηχίον, also a plant colts-foot, (Hustenkraut), Tussilago farfara, as medicine against coughing (Lehmann KZ 41, 94, Strömberg Pflanzennamen 8 5f.). Denomin. βήσσω, βήξω, ἔβηξα.
Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]
Etymology: The root noun βήξ denotes the illness as active (though not necessarily as a demon, Radermacher WienAkSb 202, 1 S. 10 A. 2). Fur. 128 notes βήκιον and πήχιον as variants and concludes (hard to escape) to Pre-Gr.; hardly IE (Eng. cough) with Pisani Arch. glott. it 53 (1968) 63f. Ultimately onomatopoetic?.
