Strong G1071γέλως

γέλως,
Aeolic dialect γέλος, ὁ, genitive γέλωτος, Attic dialect γέλω: dative γέλωτι, Epic dialect γέλω or γέλῳ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.100: _accusative_ γέλωτα)], poetry (and late Prose, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (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))]: (γελάω):—laughter, γέλῳ ἔκθανον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.100; γέλω.. παρέχουσαι 20.8)]; ἄσβεστον γέλω (variant{γέλον}) ὦρσεν[Refs 8th c.BC+ ([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)]; γέλωτα ποιεῖν, μηχανᾶσθαι, κινεῖν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (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)]; γέλων ξυντιθέναι, γέλωτα ἄγειν, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (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)]; ἐπὶ γέλωτι to provoke laughter, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.82, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 405)]; γέλωτος ἄξια ridiculous, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 507)]; ἅμα or σὺν γέλωτι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (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)]; ἐν γέλωτι προφέρειν in joke, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.124d)]; πολὺς γ. loud laughter, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (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))]; μέγιστος, ἰσχυρὸς γ., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Plt.” [same place], “R.” 388c)]; Σαρδόνιος γ. (see. Σαρδόνιος); Αἰάντειος γ. a maniac's laugh, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th-5th c.AD: Diogenianus Paroemiographus 1.17.)]
2 metaphorically of waves, ={γέλασμα}, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Oppianus Anazarbensis Epicus “Halieutica - Poetae Bucolici et Didactici” 4.334.)]
II occasion of laughter, food for laughter, γ. γίγνομαί τινι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 902)]; ταῦτ᾽ οὐ γ. κλύειν ἐμο; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 528; γέλωτά τινα τίθεσθαι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.29, 7.209; ἀποδεῖξαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 166a)]; εἰς γ. τρέπειν, ἐμβάλλειν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.35, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 10.75; ἐν γέλωτι ποιεῖσθαί τι 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Hist.Conscr.” 32, etc.; γ. ἔσθ᾽ ὡς χρώμεθα τοῖς πράγμασι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.25; ὅσα γὰρ.., πλείων ἐστὶ γ. τοῦ μηδενός [prev. author] 14.26.)]
III dimple in the hinder parts, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Am.” 14.)]