ψᾰκάς,
Ionic dialect and later (cf. Moer. p.419 P.) ψεκάς, άδος, ἡ:— drop of rain, ὅταν μὲν κατὰ μικρὰ φέρηται, ψακάδες, ὅταν δὲ κατὰ μείζω μόρια, ὑετὸς καλεῖται [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 347a11, compare 348a7, +others] Refs 4th c.BC+]; particle, [[[prev. work] 373b16: mostly _collective_, ] Refs]drizzle, ψακὰς δὲ λήγει, i. e. heavy rain (ὄμβρος) is coming, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1534 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; opposed to ὑετοί, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 5.4 (_plural_); ὕσθησαν αἱ Θῆβαι ψακάδι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.10 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: generally, rain, ὑπὸ στέγῃ πυκνῆς ἀκοῦσαι ψακάδος [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 636, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 2, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 856 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; so ψεκάς [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 2.3.1: ψεκάδες ] Refs 5th c.BC+]showers, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 17(1).37 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; also φοίνισσα ψακάς a shower of blood, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 106; βάλλει μ᾽ ἐρεμνῇ ψακάδι φοινίας δρόσου 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1390 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; Βρομίου ψακάδεσσι, i. e. drops of wine, [[ 5th c.BC: Critias Philosophus, Tragicus, Elegiacus 1.10. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 Comic name for a sputterer, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 1150 (Lyric poetry), compare 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus (which see) ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II metaphorically of solids, ἀργυρίου μηδὲ ψακάς not a drop of money, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 121 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; [ψάμμου] ψεκάς grains of sand, [[“Anthologia Graeca” 12.145. (ψακάς probably by assimilation from ψεκάς.) ] Refs]