1. ἀγκάλη · ankalē — Beekes
ἀγκάλη VAR ἀγκών, ἄγκος, etc. = ἀγκύλος, — [Beekes, s.v. ἀγκάλη, p. 60]
The corpus record
ἀγκάλη
agkale
VAR ἀγκών, ἄγκος, etc
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Where it lives
- Ion 7 · 7.65/10k
- Iphigenia in Tauris 3 · 3.62/10k
- Bacchae 2 · 2.66/10k
- Iphigenia in Aulis 2 · 2.24/10k
- Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
- Helen 2 · 2.04/10k
- Orestes 2 · 2.04/10k
- Libation Bearers 1 · 1.86/10k
- Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
- Esther 1 · 1.81/10k
- Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
- Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k
Densest 12 of 24 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. ἀγκάλη · ankalē — Frisk
ἀγκάλη f., gew. pl. "gekrümmter Arm, Armvoll’ (Archil., A. usw.). Demin. ἀγκαλίς, gew. -iöes (Il.usw.), im Epos aus metrischen Rücksichten dem Grundwort vorgezogen. Die Lesung ἄγκαλον (Akk.sg.) "Armvoll, Bündel” Ah. Merec. 82 ist nicht ganz sicher. — Von ἀγκάλη das Denominativum ἀγκαλίζομαι “auf die Arme nehmen’ (Semon. usw.) mit den Nomina actionis ἀγκάλισμα (Tim. Pers.), ἀγκαλισμός (Pap.). — [Frisk, s.v. ἀγκάλη, p. 41]
3. ἀγκάλη · ankalē — LSJ
bent arm
bent arm, mostly in pl., ἐν ἀγκάλαις A. Ag. 723, Supp. 481, E. Alc. 351, al.; prov., ἐν ταῖς ἀ. περιΦέρειν τινά X. Cyr. 7.5.50; without ἐν, ἀγκάλαις ἔχειν, περιΦέρειν, E. IT 289, Or. 464; ἐπʼ ἀγκάλαις λαβεῖν Id. Ion 761, cf. IT 1250; ἐς ἀ. Ion 1598; πρὸς ἀγκάλαις πεσεῖν ib. 962; ὑπʼ ἀγκάλαις σταθείς Id. Andr. 747: rarely in sg., Corinn. 19 (s.v.l.); φέρειν ἐν τῇ ἀ. Hdt. 6.61, cf. X. l.c., Timocl. 7.4.
2 bend of knee
bend of knee, Cael.Aur. TP 5.1.2.
II anything closely enfolding
metaph., anything closely enfolding, κυμάτων ἐν ἀγκάλαις Archil. 23; πετραία ἀ. A. Pr. 1019; πόντιαι ἀ. Id. Ch. 587, cf. E. Or. 1378; πελαγίοις ἐν ἀ. Nausicr. 1.3; of the air, γῆν..ἔχονθʼ ὑγραῖς ἐν ἀ. E. Fr. 941.
III bundle, sheaf
bundle, sheaf, BGU 1180 (i B. C.), PLond. 1.131r396 (i A. D.), POxy. 935.19 (iii A. D.).
In the wild
- ἀγκάλαις · ankalais Aeschylus, Agamemnon 723–726
- ἀγκάλαι · ankalai Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 585–588
- ἀγκάλη · ankalē Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 1014–1019
- ἀγκάλαις · ankalais Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 480–484
- ἀγκάλαις · ankalais Aristophanes, Frogs 703–705
- ἀγκαλίδας · ankalidas Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.5 (DIORISIS sentence 699)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. ἀγκάλη (scan p. 60; entry #96).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ἀγκάλη (scan p. 41; entry #73).
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