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ἀκέων

akeon

schweigend, stumm

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Where it lives

Odyssey 11 · 1.27/10k
Iliad 7 · 0.63/10k

What it meant

1. ἀκέων · akeōn — Frisk

ἀκέων, -£ovoa, -ἔοντε ‘schweigend, stumm’, hom. Ptz., auch ἀκέων unflektiert (vgl. Leumann Hom. Wörter 167 m. A. 16). Von finiten Formen nur der nachträglich hinzugeschaffene Opt. ἀκέοις (A.R. 1, 765). Daneben ἀκήν hom. Adv. = ἀκέων, gewöhnlich im Ausdruck ἀκὴν ἐγένοντο σιωπῇ. Später auch als Objekt ἀκὴν ἔχεν (Mosch. 2, 18), ἀκὴν ἦγες" ἡσυχίαν ἦγες H. Bei Pi. ?. 4, 156 der Instrumental ἀκᾶ. — Ableitungen: ἀκήνιον' … — [Frisk, s.v. ἀκέων, p. 82]

2. ἀκέων · akeōn — Frisk

ἀκέων. Haebler Archiv f. Begriffsgeschichte 11 (1967) 115 will es mit κόσμος verbinden; s.d. (Nachtr.) m. Weiterem. — [Frisk, s.v. ἀκέων, p. 2150]

3. ἀκέων · akeōn — LSJ

softly, silently

softly, silently, fem. ἀκέουσα Il. 1.565, Od. 11.142: dual. ἀκέοντε 14.195; also indecl., ἀκέων δαίνυσθε 21.89, cf. h.Ap. 404; Ἀθηναίη ἀκέων ἦν Il. 4.22, 8.459.

In the wild

ἀκέων · akeōn Iliad 1.34
ἀκέων · akeōn Iliad 1.512
ἀκέουσα · akeousa Iliad 1.565
ἀκέουσα · akeousa Iliad 1.569
ἀκέων · akeōn Iliad 10.85
ἀκέων · akeōn Iliad 4.22

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Where it came from

Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ἀκέων (scan p. 82; entry #268).

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