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αἴθω

aitho

to kindle

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Where it lives

Rhesus 5 · 9.3/10k
Shield of Heracles 2 · 6.18/10k
Trojan Women 2 · 2.83/10k
Ajax 2 · 2.54/10k
Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
Works and Days 1 · 1.73/10k
De Mundo 1 · 1.58/10k
Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
Iliad 15 · 1.35/10k
Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
De Sensu et Sensibilibus 1 · 1.28/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. αἴθω · aithō — Beekes

αἴθω [v.] ‘to kindle’, intr. med. ‘burn (with light) (IL). τ *h,eid"- ‘kindle’> eVAR Only present. *COMP Cf. » Αἰθίοπες. On κακο-ιθής see on KEYKEL S.v. » κάγκανος. DER αἶθος [m.] ‘burning heat’ (E.) = Skt. édha- [m.] ‘firewood’, OHG eit [m.], OE ad ‘blaze, pyre’; αἰθός ‘sparkling, glowing’, also ‘dark-colored’; also αἴθων, -wvog (IL) and αἶθοψ (on the mgs. see Beekes Glotta 73 (1995-1996): 15-17). αἶθος [n.] ‘fire’ … — [Beekes, s.v. αἴθω, p. 84]

2. αἴθω · aithō — Chantraine

αἴθω : seulement présent et impf., surtout employé au moyen au sens de « brûler », mais en impliquant aussi la notion de lumière, éclat et chez Hom. toujours au participe (cf. L. Graz, Le feu dans l’Iliade, 78-88) ; l'actif αἴθω post-homérique est généralement factitif «faire brûler », rarement intransitif. Le mot est presque ignoré de la prose attique, qui emploie καίω. Enfin, chez Hom. le part. fém. substantivé … — [Chantraine, s.v. αἴθω, p. 46]

3. αἴθω · aithō — LSJ

light up, kindle

light up, kindle, Hdt. 4.145, A. Ag. 1435; θεοῖς ἱερά S. Ph. 1033; λαμπάδας E. Rh. 95; δάφναν Theoc. 2.24, etc.; πυρά E. Rh. 41, 78, 823: metaph., σέλας ὄμμασιν αἴθει AP 12.93 (Rhian.); χόλον αἶθες ib. 5.300 (Paul.Sil.).

2 burn, blaze

rarely intr., burn, blaze, Pi. O. 7.48; λαμπτῆρες οὐκέτʼ ᾖθον S. Aj. 286.

3 burn, blaze, burnt fiercely

Pass., αἴθομαι, burn, blaze, Hom. always in part., πυρὸς μένος αἰθομένοιο Il. 6.182, cf. 8.563; αἰ. δαλός 13.320; δαΐδες Od. 7.101, cf. Pi. O. 1.1, Pae. 6.97, E. Hipp. 1279, etc.; after Hom. in other moods, αἴθεται κάλλιστα [τὰ ὀστέα] Hdt. 4.61; αἰθέσθω δὲ πῦρ E. IA 1470; δώματʼ αἴθεσθαι δοκῶν Id. Ba. 624, cf. X. An. 6.3.19: metaph., ἔρωτι αἴθεσθαι X. Cyr. 5.1.16, cf. AP 12.83 (Mel.); αἴθετο . . ἔρως (Ep. impf.) burnt fiercely, A.R. 3.296. (Cf. Lat. aestas, aestus: the weak form of the root appe

In the wild

αἴθῃ · aithēi Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1432–1436
αἴθων · aithōn Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 447–450
αἴθεσθαι · aithesthai Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 15)
αἰθομένοιο · aithomenoio Aristotle, De Sensu et Sensibilibus (DIORISIS sentence 29)
αἴθεσθαι · aithesthai Euripides, Bacchae 624–626
αἰθέσθω · aithesthō Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 1470 (DIORISIS sentence 947)

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Where it came from

Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. αἴθω (scan p. 84; entry #217).
Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. αἴθω (scan pp. 46-47; entry #209).

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