νεοσσός,
Attic dialect νεοττ-, ὁ, (νέος) young bird, nestling, chick, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.311, 9.323, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 425, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 835, NT.Luke.2.24, etc.; ἀπτῆνες ν. 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.48a. ] NT+8th c.BC+]
__2 any young animal, as a young crocodile, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.68 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of young children, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 256, 501, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 403 (Lyric poetry), +others, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 776a: _feminine_, ἦν νεοττὸς καὶ νέα (i.e. Lais) 4th c.BC: Epicrates Comicus 3.15 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: in plural, young bees, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 7.34, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 624a22 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Ἄρεως ν., of the cock, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 835 ] Refs 5th c.BC+] (also ironically, of a person, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 104): collective, ἵππου ν.] Refs 5th c.BC+] the horse's brood, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 825. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__3 yolk of an egg, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 565a3, Oracle texts cited in 3rd c.BC: Chrysippus Stoicus 2.344 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; compare νεοττίον.—The disyllable form νοσσός is cited in [[ “Anecdota Graeca - Bekker” 109 from 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 113 and occurs in 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oxy.” 2081] Refs 5th c.BC+] (b) fragment 3: this and cognate forms (commonly found in later Gr.) are condemned as ἀδόκιμα by [[ 2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista 182. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]