The corpus record

ἀδελφ-ή

adelphe · ἡ

sister, kinswoman, sister

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Where it lives

3 John 1 · 46.3/10k
2 John 1 · 41.32/10k
Canticum 7 · 35.99/10k
Philemon 1 · 30.49/10k
Paralipomenon I 23 · 17.3/10k
Tobias (cod. Vat. et Alex.) 9 · 17.13/10k
Machabaeorum IV 11 · 14.26/10k
Orestes 13 · 13.26/10k
Susanna (LXX) 1 · 13.09/10k
Genesis 38 · 12.65/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 9 · 10.85/10k
Phoenissae 9 · 9.32/10k

Densest 12 of 98 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

sister

sister, Trag., E. Fr. 866, etc.; ὁμοπατρία ἀ. Men. Georg. 12, cf. PTeb. 320.5 (ii A.D.): Ion. ἀδελφ-εή, Hdt. 2.56, al.; Ep. ἀδελφ-ειή, Q.S. 1.30; Dor. ἀδελφ-εά, Pi. N. 7.4, and in lyr, passages of Trag., S. OT 160, OC 535.

2 kinswoman

kinswoman, LXX Jb. 42.11.

3 sister

term of endearment, Ca. 4.9, To. 5.21; applied to a wife, POxy. 744.1 (i B. C.), etc.:—as a title, Βερενίκη ἡ ἀ. καὶ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ (of a cousin) OGI 60.3 (iii B. C.):—sister (as a fellow Christian), Ep.Rom. 16.1, etc.

In the wild

ἀδελφὴν · adelphēn Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 16–17
ἀδελφαὶ · adelphai Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 798–800
ἀδελφεῶν · adelpheōn Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 976
ἀδελφῆς · adelphēs Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 1069–1070
ἀδελφαῖς · adelphais Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 811–812
ἀδελφὴ · adelphē Aristotle, Ars Poetica 14

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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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