1. Αἴας · Aias — Chantraine
The corpus record
Αἴας
aias
nom de deux héros homériques, souvent rapproché de αἷα
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Where it lives
- Ajax 39 · 49.6/10k
- Iliad 192 · 17.22/10k
- Hippias Minor 3 · 6.89/10k
- Persians 3 · 5.89/10k
- Rhesus 3 · 5.58/10k
- Helen 3 · 3.07/10k
- Trojan Women 2 · 2.83/10k
- Iphigenia in Aulis 2 · 2.24/10k
- Cratylus 3 · 1.68/10k
- Rhetoric 5 · 1.16/10k
- Apology 1 · 1.14/10k
- Philoctetes 1 · 1.14/10k
Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. Αἴας · Aias — Frisk
3. Αἴας · Aias — Frisk
4. Αἴᾱς · Aias — LSJ
Ajax, masc. pr. n., borne by two heroes, the Greater, son of Telamon, the Less, son of Oïleus, Hom.:—nom. Αἶᾰς Alcm. 68; voc. Αἶαν Pi. Fr. 184, Aeol. Αἴαν Alc. 48 A: pl. Αἴαντες, of tragedies named after Ajax, Arist. Po. 1455b34. (S. derives it fancifully from αἰαῖ, Aj. 430.)
In the wild
- Αἴαντος · Aiantos Aeschylus, Persians 595–597
- Αἴαντος · Aiantos Aeschylus, Persians 306–307
- Αἴαντος · Aiantos Aeschylus, Persians 361–368
- Αἴας · Aias Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Β (DIORISIS sentence 2365)
- Αἴαντες · Aiantes Aristotle, Ars Poetica 18
- Αἴαντα · Aianta Aristotle, Rhetoric 2
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Where it came from
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Αἴας (scan p. 43; entry #182).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Αἴας (scan pp. 60-61; entry #176). Root candidates: *aik-, *wig-.
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