μορμολυκεῖον
σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ σὺ χεῖρα κινεῖ → God helps those who help themselves, God helps them that help themselves, heaven helps those who help themselves, the Lord helps those who help themselves, move your hand along with Athena, move your hand along with Minerva, fortune favors the prepared mind, fortune favours the prepared mind, chance favors the prepared mind, chance favours the prepared mind
English (LSJ)
τό,
A bogey, bogeyman, hobgoblin, Ar.Th.417 (pl.), Pl.Phd. 77e, Socr. ap. Arr.Epict.2.1.15 (pl.), Gal.Protr.10.
2 μορμολυκεῖον κωμῳδικόν = comic mask, Ar.Fr.31, cf. 131.
French (Bailly abrégé)
μορμολῠκεῖον ou μορμολύκειον;
ου (τό) :
mannequin pour faire peur aux enfants.
Étymologie: μορμολύττω.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
μορμολῠκεῖον: и μορμολύκειον τό пугало, страшилище (τινι Arph.; μὴ δεδιέναι τὸν θάνατον ὥσπερ μορμολύκεια Plat.; γιγάντειόν τι Luc.).
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
μορμολῠκεῖον: ἢ μορμολύκειον (κατά τινα Ἀντίγραφα), τό, ὡς τὸ μορμώ, φόβητρον ἢ προσωπεῖον εἰς φόβησιν παίδων, Ἀριστοφ. Θεσμ. 417, Ἀποσπ. 97. 187, Πλάτ. Φαίδων 77Ε· πρβλ. Ruhnk. εἰς Τίμ.: - μορμολύκη, ἡ, Στράβ. 19· μορμολυκεία, ἡ, Ἀρρ. Ἐπίκτ. 2. 1, 15.
Greek Monotonic
μορμολῠκεῖον: τό, = μορμώ, σε Πλάτ.
English (Woodhouse)
Translations
bogeyman
Arabic Moroccan Arabic: بوعو, بو خنشة; Basque: hamalau-zaku; Catalan: home del sac, papu; Chinese Mandarin: 怪物, 魔鬼; Czech: bubák; Danish: bussemand, bøhmand; Dutch: boeman, bietebauw; Esperanto: infantimigulo; Estonian: koll; Finnish: mörkö; French: croque-mitaine; Galician: sacaúntos, coco, sacamanteigas, papón; German: Butzemann; Greek: μπαμπούλας; Ancient Greek: Ἀλφιτώ, Γοργόνειον, Λάμια, μορμολύκα, μορμολυκεῖον, μορμολύκειον, μορμολύκη, μορμολυκία, μορμόρυξις, μορμώ, Μορμώ; Hungarian: krampusz, mumus; Italian: uomo nero, babau; Japanese: ブギーマン, 小鬼; Korean: 꼬마 도깨비, 부기맨; Ladino: bambaruto; Latgalian: buba; Latin: larva; Latvian: bubulis; Lithuanian: baubas, bubulis; Norman: croque-mitaine, barbou; Norwegian: busemann; Persian: لولو sg; Polish: czarny lud; Portuguese: bicho-papão, homem do saco, papa-figos; Romanian: baubau, omul negru, gogoriță; Russian: бука, бабай, страшилище, домовой, бугимен; Serbo-Croatian: babaroga, бабарога; Spanish: coco, cuco, cucuy, sacamantecas, hombre del saco; Tajik: буҷӣ; Turkish: gulyabani, hortlak, öcü, karakoncolos, umacı; Vietnamese: ngoáo ộp