κονιορτός

From κόνις (kónis, “dust”) +‎ ὄρνυμι (órnumi, “to raise”).

κονιορτός • (koniortós) m (genitive κονιορτοῦ); second declension

1. cloud of dust

   Synonyms: κονίσαλος (konísalos), φορυτός (phorutós), χοῦς (khoûs), ψαύριος (psaúrios)

   • c. 2nd century BCE, Sibylline Oracles, Book III, 800–802:

     καὶ κονιορτὸς ἀπ᾽ οὐρανόθεν προφέρηται πρὸς γαῖαν ἅπαν καί οἱ σέλας ἠελίοιο ἐκλείψει κατὰ μέσσον ἀπ᾽ οὐρανοῦ

     kaì koniortòs ap᾽ ouranóthen prophérētai pròs gaîan hápan kaí hoi sélas ēelíoio ekleípsei katà mésson ap᾽ ouranoû

     and a cloud of dust will be cast from heaven over all the earth, and the light of the sun will be eclipsed in the middle of the sky

2. dirt, sweepings
3. dirty fellow

• “κονιορτός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κονιορτός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κονιορτός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN