γέλως,
Aeolic dialect γέλος, ὁ, genitive γέλωτος, Attic dialect γέλω: dative γέλωτι, Epic dialect γέλω or γέλῳ [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.100: _accusative_ γέλωτα] Refs 8th c.BC+], poetry (and late Prose, [[ 2nd c.AD: Polyaenus Historicus 1.34.2, _falsa lectio_ in 4th c.AD: Palaephatus Paradoxographus 30) γέλων, see below (_accusative_ γέλω is variant in 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.350, compare below): _genitive_ _plural_ γελώτων 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 732c: _dative_ γέλωσιν 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.167, “PGiss.” 1.3.6 (2nd c.AD)] Refs 8th c.BC+]: (γελάω):—laughter, γέλῳ ἔκθανον [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.100; γέλω.. παρέχουσαι 20.8 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἄσβεστον γέλω (variant{γέλον}) ὦρσεν[[ [prev. work] 346; ἄσβεστος δ᾽ ᾰρ᾽ ἐνῶρτο γέλως.. θεοῖσι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.599; γέλων δ᾽ ἑτάροισιν ἔτευχε 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.350; γέλων δ᾽ ἔθηκε συνδείπνοις 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1172 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; γέλωτα ποιεῖν, μηχανᾶσθαι, κινεῖν, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.2.11 and 14, “Smp.” 1.14; παρασκευάζειν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 669d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; γέλων ξυντιθέναι, γέλωτα ἄγειν, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 303, 382; γ. ἔχει τινά 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.344; γ. ἂν γίγνοιτο 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 295e; γέλωτος καταρραγέντος 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 5.211c (so in _active_, πολλοὺς κατέρρηξεν ἡμῶν γέλωτας Hippoloch.[prev. work] 130c); κατασχεῖν γέλωτα 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.2.5, etc.; οὐ γέλωτα δεῖ σ᾽ ὀφλεῖν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 404, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 898 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐπὶ γέλωτι to provoke laughter, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.82, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 405 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; γέλωτος ἄξια ridiculous, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 507 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἅμα or σὺν γέλωτι, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 789d, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.2.18; μετὰ γέλωτος 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 144.6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν γέλωτι προφέρειν in joke, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.124d] Refs 1st c.AD+]; πολὺς γ. loud laughter, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.3.18, etc. (πλατὺς γ., which Thom.Mag. p.293 R. recommends, is not classical)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μέγιστος, ἰσχυρὸς γ., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Plt.” [same place], “R.” 388c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Σαρδόνιος γ. (see. Σαρδόνιος); Αἰάντειος γ. a maniac's laugh, [[ 4th-5th c.AD: Diogenianus Paroemiographus 1.17. ] Refs 4th c.AD+]