1. αἴξ · aix — Beekes
The corpus record
αἴξ
aix
goat
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Where it lives
- Numeri 31 · 13.43/10k
- Canticum 2 · 10.28/10k
- On the Sacred Disease 3 · 6.54/10k
- Leviticus 11 · 5.88/10k
- Works and Days 3 · 5.2/10k
- Odyssey 35 · 4.03/10k
- Genesis 11 · 3.66/10k
- Judices (cod. Al.) 5 · 3.42/10k
- Shield of Heracles 1 · 3.09/10k
- Daniel (LXX) 3 · 2.86/10k
- Regnorum I 4 · 2.16/10k
- Paralipomenon II 3 · 1.52/10k
Densest 12 of 33 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. αἴξ · aix — Chantraine
3. αἴξ · aix — Frisk
4. αἴξ · aix — Frisk
5. αἴξ · aix — LSJ
goat, mostly fem., μηκάδας αἶγας Od. 9.124; λεύκας αἶγος Sapph. 7 (s.v.l.), cf. Ar. Nu. 71, Pl. Lg. 639a, etc., but masc. in Od. 14.106, 530; also τῶν αἰγῶν τῶν τραγῶν Hdt. 3.112:—once in Trag., S. Fr. 793 (anap.).
αἲξ ἄγριος wild goat, prob. ibex (cf. αἴγαγρος), ἰονθάς Od. 14.50; ἴξαλος Il. 4.105; αἶγες ὀρεσκῷοι Od. 9.155; ἀγρότεραι 17.295:—proverbs, αἲξ οὐρανία in Com. as a source of mysterious and suspected wealth, in allusion to the horn of Amalthea, Cratin. 244; οὐράνιον αἶγα πλουτοφόρον Com.Adesp. 8; αἲξ τὴν μάχαιραν (sc. ηὗρε), of those who ‘ask for trouble’, Zen. 1.27; αἲξ οὔπω τέτοκεν ‘donʼt count your chickens before they are hatched’, 1.42; αἲξ Σκυρία· ἐπὶ τῶν τὰς εὐεργεσίας ἀνατρεπόντων· ἀνατρέ
the star Capella, Arat. 157.
a water-bird, apparently of the goose kind, Arist. HA 593b23.
fiery meteor, Arist. Mete. 341b3.
in pl., waves, Artem. 2.12. (Att. αἶξ, acc. to Hdn.Gr. 1.937.)
6. ἄϊξ · aix — LSJ
= ἀϊκή, ἀνέμων ἄϊκες A.R. 4.820.
In the wild
- αἶγας · aigas Aristophanes, Clouds 70 (DIORISIS sentence 55)
- αἰγῶν · aigōn Aristophanes, Plutus 1 (DIORISIS sentence 238)
- Αἰγὸς · Aigos Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..34 (DIORISIS sentence 416)
- αἶγα · aiga Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1118a (DIORISIS sentence 1004)
- αἶγα · aiga Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1134b (DIORISIS sentence 1777)
- Αἰγὸς · Aigos Demosthenes, Against Aristocrates 212 (DIORISIS sentence 730)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. αἴξ (scan pp. 87-88; entry #233).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. αἴξ (scan pp. 50-51; entry #234).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. αἴξ (scan p. 72; entry #219).
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