μηκασμός
ὃν οὐ τύπτει λόγος οὐδὲ ῥάβδος → if words don't get through, neither a beating will | if the carrot doesn't work, the stick will not work either | whom words do not strike, neither does the rod
English (LSJ)
ὁ, bleating, τραγοῦ, αἰγῶν, Plu.Sull.27, Poll.5.87.
German (Pape)
[Seite 171] ὁ, das Meckern der Ziegen, Blöken der Schaafe, Plut. qu. Rom. 111 Sull. 27.
French (Bailly abrégé)
οῦ (ὁ) :
bêlement.
Étymologie: μηκάζω.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
μηκασμός: ὁ блеяние Plut.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
μηκασμός: ὁ, τὸ μηκᾶσθαι, Λατ. balatus, Πλουτ. Σύλλ. 27, Πολυδ. Ε΄, 87.
Greek Monolingual
ο (Α μηκασμός) μηκάζω
η φωνή τών προβάτων και τών αιγών, το βέλασμα («τράγου μηκασμῷ φωνὴν ἀφέντος», Πλούτ.).
Greek Monotonic
μηκασμός: ὁ, βέλασμα, Λατ. balatus, σε Πλούτ.
Middle Liddell
μηκασμός, οῦ, ὁ, [from μηκάομαι
a bleating, Lat. balatus, Plut.
Translations
bleat
Albanian: blegërij; Arabic: ثُغَاء, مَأْمَأَة; Bulgarian: блеене; Catalan: bel; Czech: bečení, bek; Danish: mæh; Dutch: geblaat; Esperanto: beo; Faroese: jarm, jarman, jarming; Finnish: määkiminen, määintä; French: bêlement, bêlement, béguètement; German: Blöken; Greek: βέλασμα; Ancient Greek: βῆ, βλαχά, βλῆ, βληχάς, βληχή, βληχηθμός, βλήχημα, βλήχησις, βληχητόν, βρύχημα, μηκάς, μηκασμός, μηκηθμός, φθογγή; Hebrew: פעיה, חניבה; Icelandic: jarmur; Ido: bramo; Indonesian: embik, embek, embek; Italian: belato; Kurdish Central Kurdish: باع, باڵاندن; Latin: balatus; Malay: embek; Old English: blǣt, *blǣtung; Polish: bek; Portuguese: balido; Russian: блеянье, блеяние; Scottish Gaelic: meig, migead, meigead; Serbo-Croatian: blejanje; Spanish: balido; Swedish: bräkande; Tagalog: mee, me; Turkish: me, meleme
