Αἶνος

Where it lives

• Psalmi 2 · 0.58/10k
• Histories 2 · 0.11/10k
• Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k
• History 1 · 0.07/10k

What it meant

This reads as a proper name — a river, a person, a place — held only because the corpus attests it. It stands outside the library's subject, the vocabulary of the soul, so no lexicon entry is recorded.

In the wild

• Αἴνῳ · Ainōi Herodotus, Histories 4.90.2 (DIORISIS sentence 4647)
• Αἶνόν · Ainon Herodotus, Histories 7.58.3 (DIORISIS sentence 7442)
• Αἰνόθεν · Ainothen Iliad 4.520
• Αἶνος · Ainos Septuaginta, Psalmi 90
• Αἶνος · Ainos Septuaginta, Psalmi 94
• Αἴνου · Ainou Thucydides, History 4.28.4 (DIORISIS sentence 2725)

Where it came from

• Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. Αἶνος (scan pp. 86-87; entry #229).
• Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Αἶνος (scan p. 50; entry #228).

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