αἰνέω (aineo)

Where it lives

Psalmi 53 · 15.5/10k
Baruch 3 · 11.87/10k
Libation Bearers 6 · 11.16/10k
Odae 4 · 9.84/10k
Suppliant Maidens 4 · 8.3/10k
Siracides 15 · 8.13/10k
Machabaeourum III 4 · 7.96/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 7 · 7.84/10k
Eumenides 4 · 7.63/10k
Paralipomenon I 10 · 7.52/10k
Works and Days 4 · 6.94/10k
Daniel (LXX) 7 · 6.66/10k

Densest 12 of 56 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

αἰνέω · aineō — LSJ

tell, speak of, reports of

properly, tell, speak of, A. Ag. 98, 1482 (both lyr.), Ch. 192; σε κρηγύην αἰνεῖ reports of you as honest, Herod. 4.47.

II praise, approve

usu. praise, approve, opp. νεικέω, ψέγω, Il. 10.249, Thgn. 612, etc.; ἀνδρὸς ὃν οὐδʼ αἰνεῖν τοῖσι κακοῖσι θέμις Arist. Fr. 673:— Pass., ὑπὸ Σιμωνίδεω αἰνεθείς Hdt. 5.102; ἐπʼ ἔργμασιν ἐσθλοῖς Theoc. 16.15.

b glorify

esp. in religious sense, glorify God, LXX 1 Ch. 16.4, Ev.Luc. 2.13, PMag.Par. 1.1146, al.:—also c. dat., τῷ κυρίῳ, τῷ θεῷ, LXX 1 Ch. 16.36, Apoc. 19.5.

2 approve, advise, recommend, recommend, to commend, giver of, counsel, to be content with, acquiesce in

approve, advise, recommend Od. 16.380, 403: c. inf., recommend to do a thing, euphem. for κελεύω, A. Ch. 555, 715 : c. part., αἰνεῖν ἰόντα to commend oneʼs going, Id. Pers. 643:—ὦ δεινὸν αἶνον αἰνέσας giver of dire counsel, S. Ph. 1380:— c. acc. rei, to be content with, acquiesce in, γάμον Pi. P. 3.13, cf. N. 1.72, A. Eu. 469, Supp. 902, 1070 (lyr.), E. Med. 1157; θῆσσαν τράπεζαν αἰνέσαι Id. Alc. 2.

3 praise, decline courteously, thank

praise, with collateral sense, decline courteously, νῇ ὀλίγην αἰνεῖν, μεγάλῃ δʼ ἐνὶ φορτία θέσθαι Hes. Op. 643 (cf. Plu. Aud.poet. 2.22f), cf. S. Fr. 109; but, thank, cj. in E. Supp. 388.

4 approve

abs., approve, ὁ δᾶμος αἰνεῖ IG 9(1).119 (Locr.).

III to promise, vow

to promise or vow, τινί τι or τινὶ ποιεῖν τι, S. Ph. 1398, E. Alc. 12.

In the wild

αἰνεῖν · ainein Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1403
αἴνει · ainei Aeschylus, Agamemnon 140–152
αἰνεῖς · aineis Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1481–1484
αἰνεῖν · ainein Aeschylus, Agamemnon 916–917
αἰνεῖν · ainein Aeschylus, Agamemnon 97–103
αἰνῶ · ainō Aeschylus, Eumenides 1021–1024

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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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