τρίζω
trizo
utter a shrill cry
Appears 6 times across Homer's epics.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
τρίζω, Od. 24.5,7, Morb. 2.55, HA 504a19, al.; but pf. τέτριγα is more freq. in pres. sense, Ep. part. τετριγῶτες, for τετριγότες, Il. 2.314:—prop. of sounds uttered by animals (cf. τριγμός, τρύζω), A. utter a shrill cry, of young birds, Il. 2.314; of bats, Od. 24.7, cf. 3.110; of the Τρωγοδύται, τετρίγασι κατά περ αἱ νυκτερίδες 4.183; of partridges, HA 536b14; of the ἴυγξ, ib.504a19; of locusts, Mir. 844b26; of young swallows, Tim. 21; of the elephant, Zeux. 10; of mice, 1132, 108.23, etc.; of the fish called σελάχη, HA 535b25: also applied to the noise made by ghosts, ‘squeak and gibber’, Il. 23.101, Od. 24.5,9; ἔτριζον δίκην ἀσπίδων (αἱ ψυχαί) ap. 1.49.44. 2. of other sounds, τετρίγει (Ep. plpf.) δʼ ἄρα νῶτα θρασειάων ἀπὸ χειρῶν the wrestlers’ backs creaked, Il. 23.714; so τρίζει, crepitates, of a broken collar-bone, Fract. 13; τέτριγε δʼ ὁ κυνόδων grinds, 21; τὸ τρίζειν ἀκουσίως involuntary gnashing, 7.150; τ. τοὺς ὀδόντας Ev.Marc. 9.18; τοῖς ὀδοῦσι Hippiatr. 86; of a musical string, give a crack, AP 6.54 (Paul. Sil.); of an axle, creak, ἄξων τετριγὼς ὑπʼ ἄμαξαν Hec. 1.4.14; so of a cart-wheel, 52.2; of a shoe, Ep. 37 (τρύζοι codd.); ἡ κοιλίη τ. Morb. 2.55; of singing in the ears, τὰ ὦτα τέτριγε ib.15; of the hissing or crackling of a person burnt in the fire, 120.
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