πελλός

pellos

dark-coloured, dusky

Appears 3 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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History of Animals 3
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Book IX 3
Chapter 1 608a11–610a35

609b22
609b23

Chapter 18 616b33–617a10

616b33

Dictionary (LSJ)

πελλός ή, όν, (or πέλλος, η, ον, the accent varies in codd.) A. dark-coloured, dusky, πελλὴ μηκάς dub. in S. Fr. 509 ; πελλὰ ὄϊς Theoc. 5.99, cf. S. Fr. 114 ; βοῦς EM 659.38 ; πελλὸς ἐρῳδιός Arist. HA 609b22 ; π. σποδός cj. in Phoen. 1.24 ; = Lat. pullus, [ἱμάτιον] IG 14.644 (Supp.Epigr. 4.70, Western Locr.) ; Sicyonian for κιρρός, Zenod. ap. Gal. 19.129. (Cf. πελιός, πελιδνός, πολιός ; Skt. palitás ‘grey’, Lat. palleo, pullus.)

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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