κώνωψ
Ἀναξαγόρας δύο ἔλεγε διδασκαλίας εἶναι θανάτου, τόν τε πρὸ τοῦ γενέσθαι χρόνον καὶ τὸν ὕπνον → Anaxagoras used to say that we have two teachers for death: the time before we were born and sleep | Anaxagoras said that there are two rehearsals for death: the time before being born and sleep
English (LSJ)
ωπος, ὁ,
A gnat, mosquito, A.Ag.892, Hdt.2.95, Orac. ap. Ar. Eq.1038, Arist.HA535a3, 552b5; μήτε ὡς λέων ἀναστρέφου μήτε ὡς κ. Metrod.Fr.60.
German (Pape)
[Seite 1546] ωπος, ὁ, die Mücke, Stechmücke, nach ihrem Stachel benannt; Her. 2, 95; Aesch. Ag. 893; Ar. Equ. 1038; Arist. H. A. 4, 7 u. A.; ὀξηρῷ φυόμενος κεράμῳ Dionys. 4 (XII, 108); vgl. Arist. H. A. 5, 19; Ael. H. A. 2, 4; ἐξ ὕδατος φθειρομένου S. Emp. pyrrh. 1, 41.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
κώνωψ: -ωπος, ὁ, = «κουνοῦπι», Λατ. culex, Ἡρόδ. 2. 95, Αἰσχύλ. Ἀγ. 892, Ἀριστοφ. Ἱππ. 1038· παράγονται δὲ οἱ κώνωπες ἐκ σκωλήκων ἐν τῷ καθιζήματι τοῦ ὄξους, καὶ φαίνεται ὅτι εἶναι μικρότεροι τῶν ἐμπίδων, Ἀριστ. π. τὰ Ζ. Ἱστ. 5. 19, 23, πρβλ. 4. 5, 29· κατὰ τὸν Sundevall, Stomoxys calcitrans.
French (Bailly abrégé)
ωπος (ὁ) :
cousin, insecte.
Étymologie: κῶνος, ὤψ.
English (Strong)
apparently a derivative of the base of κέντρον and a derivative of ὀπτάνομαι; a mosquito (from its stinging proboscis): gnat.
English (Thayer)
κωνωπος, ὁ, a gnat (Aeschylus), Herodotus, Hippocrates, others); of the wine-gnat or midge that is bred in (fermenting and) evaporating wine (Aristotle, h. an. 5,19 (p. 552{b}, 5; cf. Bochart, Hierozoicon, iii. 444; Buxtorf, Lex. talm. etc. 921 (474{a} Fischer edition))): Matthew 23:24.
