πομφολυγοπάφλασμα

Compound made up by Aristophanes from πομφόλῠξ (pomphólux, “bubble”) +‎ πάφλασμα (páphlasma, “a boiling of water of the sea, blustering”).

πομφολῠγοπᾰ́φλᾰσμᾰ • (pompholugopáphlasma) n (genitive πομφολῠγοπᾰφλᾰ́σμᾰτος); third declension

1. the sound of bubbles rising to the surface
   • 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 246:

     ἢ Διὸς φεύγοντες ὄμβρον
     ἔνυδρον ἐν βυθῷ χορείαν
     αἰόλαν ἐφθεγξάμεσθα
     πομφολυγοπαφλάσμασιν

     ḕ Diòs pheúgontes ómbron
     énudron en buthôi khoreían
     aiólan ephthenxámestha
     pompholugopaphlásmasin

     • Translation by Matthew Dillon. Scene: The Frogs insist on singing under sunshine or rain

       or fleeing Zeus' rain
       at the bottom our watery dance—
       song we sang
       with bubbles and splashes.

• πομφός m (pomphós, “blister”)
• πομφόλῠξ f (pomphólux, “bubble”)
• παφλάζω (paphlázō, “to gust”)

• “πομφολυγοπάφλασμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πομφολυγοπάφλασμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers