αἰνιγμός · ainigmos — LSJ
riddle
riddle, mostly like αἴνιγμα in pl., διʼ αἰνιγμῶν ἐρεῖν Ar. Ra. 61, cf. Pl. Ti. 72b, Aeschin. 3.121; ἐν αἰνιγμοῖσι σημαίνειν τι E. Rh. 754; ἐν αἰ. λαλεῖν Anaxil. 22.23: sg., Callisth. ap. Ath. 10.452a.
The corpus record
αἰνιγμός
ainigmos · ὁ
riddle
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Where it lives
- Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
- Frogs 1 · 1.1/10k
- Phoenissae 1 · 1.04/10k
- Epistles 1 · 0.59/10k
- Timaeus 1 · 0.42/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- αἰνιγμῶν · ainigmōn Aristophanes, Frogs 61
- αἰνιγμοὺς · ainigmous Euripides, Phoenissae (DIORISIS sentence 800)
- αἰνιγμοῖσι · ainigmoisi Euripides, Rhesus (DIORISIS sentence 491)
- αἰνιγμῶν · ainigmōn Plato, Epistles 312
- αἰνιγμῶν · ainigmōn Plato, Timaeus 72 (DIORISIS sentence 672)
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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