The corpus record

αἰθρ-ία

aithria · ἡ

in clear weather

Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

De Mundo 3 · 4.73/10k
De aere aquis et locis 1 · 1.35/10k
Plutus 1 · 1.24/10k
Clouds 1 · 1.04/10k
Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
Histories 6 · 0.33/10k
Hellenica 2 · 0.3/10k

What it meant

αἰθρ-ία · aithr-ia — LSJ

in clear weather

= αἴθρη, first in Sol. 13.22, then in Ion. Prose, Com., X., and Arist.: ἐξ αἰθρίης καὶ νηνεμίης Hdt. 7.188; ἐξ αἰθρίας ἀστράψω Cratin. 53, cf. Hdt. 3.86, X. HG 7.1.31; αἰθρίας οὔσης in clear weather, Arist. Mete. 342a12; αἰθρίης or -ίας abs., Hdt. 7.37, Ar. Nu. 371; τῆς αἰθρίας Arist. Pr. 939b15.

2 the clear cold air

esp. the clear cold air of night, Hdt. 2.68, cf. Hp. Aër. 8. [ῐ in penult. exc. in dact. and anap., Sol. l.c., Ar. l.c.]

In the wild

αἰθρίας · aithrias Aristophanes, Clouds 371 (DIORISIS sentence 319)
αἰθρίαν · aithrian Aristophanes, Plutus (DIORISIS sentence 917)
αἰθρία · aithria Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 56)
αἰθρίας · aithrias Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 57)
αἰθρίας · aithrias Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 57)
αἰθρίης · aithriēs Herodotus, Histories 1.87.2 (DIORISIS sentence 614)

6 of 15 attestations shown. Ask for more.

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.

Downloads

Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

Ask the librarian

Ask about αἰθρ-ία →