Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, ν , νιτρο-ποιός , νι^φ-άς

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A.snowflake, Hom. (only in Il.), mostly in pl., “ὥς τε νιφάδες χιόνος πίπτωσι θαμειαὶ ἤματι χειμερίῳ” Il. 12.278; βρέχε . . χρυσέαις νιφάδεσσι, a legendary statement of the wealth of Rhodes, Pi.O.7.34; “ἔπεα νιφάδεσσιν ἐοικότα χειμερίῃσιν” Il. 3.222, cf. Luc.Dem.Enc.5: sg. in collect. sense, snowstorm, “νιφὰς ἠὲ χάλαζα” Il.15.170; [πάγος] βρέχετο πολλᾷ νιφάδι was wrapt as in deep snow, Pi.O.10(11).51.

2. generally, shower, “πετρῶν” A.Fr.199.7, cf. Th.212 (lyr.), E.Andr.1129; τραχεῖα ν. πολέμοιο storm or sleet of war, Pi.I.4(3).17; ὀμβρία ν., of rain, Lyc.876; “πληγῶν νιφάδες” Lib.Ep.112.6.

II. as fem. Adj., = νιφόεσσα, πέτρα S.OC1060 (lyr.).

Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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