poppyzon

From Ancient Greek ποππύζων (poppúzōn, “smacking one's lips”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /popˈpyz.zoːn/, [pɔpˈpʏz̪d̪͡z̪oːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /popˈpid.d͡zon/, [popˈpid̪ː͡z̪on]

poppyzōn m (genitive poppyzontis or poppyzontos); third declension

1. one making a smacking noise with the mouth or lips
   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.104

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, variant with nominative singular in -ōn).

• poppysma
• poppysmus

• “poppȳzon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• poppȳzōn in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,201/2.
• “Poppyſma” in volume III of Robert Estienne’s Dictionarium, ſeu Latinæ linguæ Theſaurus (1543)

  Poppyſma.   Poppyzon, poppyzõtis, Demulcens, blandè attrectans, ſibilans. Plin.lib.35.cap.10.37, Quum pingeret poppyzõta retinentem equum.

• “*Poppyzonta” on page 1,049/1 of volume II of Novitius, ſeu Dictionarium Latino-Gallicum, Schrevelianâ Methodo Digeſtum (1721)

  *Poppyzonta. Pl. 35. 10. (acc.) de Poppyzon, ontis. Celui qui careſſe des Chevaux. ποππύζων.

• “Poppyzon” in Elisha Coles’ Dictionary Engliſh–Latin, and Latin–Engliſh (16th ed., 1755)

  Poppyzon, ntis; m. he that ſtrokes or whiſtles to a horse, g.

• “Poppȳzon” in column 754 of volume II of Karl Ernst Georges’ Lateiniſch-Deutſches Handwörterbuch (1838)

  Poppȳzon, tis (ποππύζων), der mit den Lippen ſchnalzt, um ein Pferd zu beſaͤnftigen ꝛc., Plin. 35, 10, 36. no. 20 (§. 104).

• “poppyzon” on page 521/2 of Joaquim-Affonso Gonçalves’s Lexicon Magnum Latino-Sinicum (1841)

  POPPYZON, ontis, m.   輕〱者 [sc. 輕哨者]

• “† poppȳzon” on page 877/2 of volume III of Wilhelm Freund’s Wörterbuch der Lateiniſchen Sprache (1845)

  † poppȳzon, ontis, m. = ποππύζων, der Schnalzende: Quum pingeret poppyzonta retinentem equum, Plin. 35, 10, 36 §. 104.

  poppȳzon, ontis, m., = ποππύζων, I. one who clucks with the tongue: “cum pingeret poppyzonta retinentem equum,” Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 104.

  poppȳzōn, ontis, acc. onta, m., (ποππύζων), celui qui fait claquer la langue : Plin. 35, 104.

• “poppyzōn” on page 1,403/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)