The corpus record

Ἀχαία

achaia · ἡ

grief

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Where it lives

Iliad 320 · 28.7/10k
Trojan Women 14 · 19.78/10k
Hecuba 11 · 15.36/10k
1 Thessalonians 2 · 13.76/10k
Rhesus 7 · 13.02/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 9 · 10.08/10k
2 Corinthians 3 · 6.69/10k
Odyssey 55 · 6.33/10k
Helen 6 · 6.13/10k
Philoctetes 5 · 5.68/10k
Agamemnon 4 · 4.93/10k
Ajax 3 · 3.82/10k

Densest 12 of 27 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. Ἀχαία · Achaia — LSJ

epith. of Demeter in Attica, Hdt. 5.61; also in Boeotia, Plu. Isid. 2.378e; Ἀχέα at Thespiae, IG 7.1867.

II grief

ἀχαιά, ἡ, = ἔριθος, Philet. ap. Gramm. post Orionem p.185S. (Acc. to Hsch. from ἄχος grief for the loss of her daughter: also Ἀχηρώ Id.)

2. Ἀχαΐα · Achaia — LSJ

In the wild

Ἀχαιῶν · Achaiōn Aeschylus, Agamemnon 108–120
Ἀχαιῶν · Achaiōn Aeschylus, Agamemnon 269
Ἀχαιῶν · Achaiōn Aeschylus, Agamemnon 538
Ἀχαιῶν · Achaiōn Aeschylus, Agamemnon 658–660
Ἀχαιῶν · Achaiōn Aeschylus, Eumenides 397–402
Ἀχαιῶν · Achaiōn Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 1071–1072

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Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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