ἄνεμος
anemos
wind
Appears 79 times across Aristotle's works.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
ἄνεμος [ᾰ], ὁ, A. wind, πέτετο πνοιῇ ἀνέμοιο Il. 12.207; ἀνέμων ἀτάλαντοι ἀέλλῃ 13.795; ὦρσεν . . ἀνέμοιο θύελλαν 12.253; ἀνέμοιο . . δεινὸς ἀήτης 15.626, cf. 14.254; ἀνέμων ἀμέγαρτον ἀϋτμήν Od. 11.407, etc.; ἀνέμων πνεύματα 7.16.αʹ, HF 102; ῥιπαί Ant. 137.930 (both lyr.); ἀήματα Eu. 905; αὖραι Med. 838; πνοιαί Av. 1396; ἀνέμων φθόγγος 37.10; ἀνέμου κατιόντος μεγάλου a gale having come on, 2.25; ἀνέμου ἐξαίφνης ἀσελγοῦς γενομένου 320; ἄνεμος κατὰ βορέαν ἑστηκώς the wind being set in the north, 6.104; ἀνέμοις φέρεσθαι παραδιδόναι τι cast a thing to the winds, Tr. 419, cf. 1.1334; κατʼ ἄνεμον στῆναι stand to leeward, HA 541a26, cf. 2.972a; κατʼ ἄνεμον καὶ ῥοῦν νήχεσθαι ib.979c: metaph., ἄνεμος . . ἄνθρωπος ‘unstable as the wind’, 376; φέρειν τινʼ ἄρας (sic l.) ἄ. a very wind to carry off, 195.5 (Lobeck); ἀνέμους θηρᾶν ἐν δικτύοις try to catch the wind, and ἀνέμῳ διαλέγεσθαι talk to the wind, 1.38; ἀνέμους γεωργεῖν ‘plough the sands’, ib. 100. 2. cardinal point, quarter, ἐκ τῶν τεσσάρων ἀ. Za. 2.6, Annales du Service 19.40 (Theadelphia, 93 B.C.), Ev.Matt. 24.31, al., 140.6, PFlor. 50.104: sg., ib.20.19 (ii A.D.); τὸ κατʼ ἄνεμον aspect, 100.10 (ii A.D.). II. wind in the body, Mul. 2.179, al. (From ἀνε- ‘blow, breathe’, cf. Skt. áni-ti ‘breathes’, Goth. uzanan ‘expire’, etc.)
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