κώνωψ

konops

gnat, mosquito

Appears 4 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

Click a work to list every occurrence by Bekker number — each links into the reader.

History of Animals 3
Open History of Animals ›
Book IV 2
Chapter 7 531b20–532b28

532a14

Chapter 8 532b29–535a26

535a3
Book V 1
Chapter 19 550b22–552b25

552b5
Generation of Animals 1
Open Generation of Animals ›
Book I 1
Chapter 16 721a2–29

721a10

Dictionary (LSJ)

κώνωψ, ωπος, ὁ, A. gnat, mosquito, A. Ag. 892, Hdt. 2.95, Orac. ap. Ar. Eq. 1038, Arist. HA 535a3, 552b5; μήτε ὡς λέων ἀναστρέφου μήτε ὡς κ. Metrod. Fr. 60.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

Index Aristotelicus. Hermann Bonitz's sense-by-sense analysis of κώνωψ — with the passages he singles out as decisive for each meaning — will appear here. That curated, interpretive selection is the layer LSJ and a raw concordance don't provide. Digitisation in progress; this entry is not yet available.

‹ All lexicon entries