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ἀκτέα

aktea

elder-tree, Sambucus nigra

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Where it lives

Persians 3 · 5.89/10k
Hecuba 4 · 5.59/10k
Against Alcibiades 1 1 · 4.15/10k
On Halonnesus 1 · 4.11/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 3 · 3.62/10k
Shield of Heracles 1 · 3.09/10k
Helen 3 · 3.07/10k
Agamemnon 2 · 2.47/10k
Philoctetes 2 · 2.27/10k
Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. ἀκτέα · aktea — Beekes

ἀκτέα (f.] ‘elder-tree, Sambucus nigra’ (Emp.). «Ὁ» *VAR Contracted ἀκτῆ; also ἀκτέος [m.]. *DER ἄκτινος (Thphr.). *ETYM On the suffix -éa, which forms tree names, see Chantraine 1933: 92 (ἰτέα, πτελέα). Witczak Linguistica Baltica 1 (1992): 201-211) connects it with Arm. haci ‘ash’, which he disassociates from » ὀξύα. Borrowed from Greek are Lat. acte (Plin.) and OHG atuh, at(t)ah. — [Beekes, s.v. ἀκτέα, p. 105]

2. ἀκτέα · aktea — Chantraine

ἀκτέα : (B., Luc. Trag. 71) et par contr. ἀκτῇ (Emp: Hp., Thphr.), une fois ἀκτέος τὰ. (Thphr. HP 3,4,2) Sambucus niqra,

3. ἀκτέα · aktea — Frisk

ἀκτέα, ἀκτῆ f., auch ἀκτέος m. “Holunder, Sambucus nigra’ (Emp., B., Hp., Thphr. usw.). Davon ἄκτινος (Thphr.). Etymoἀκτὴ — ἄκυλος 61 logie unbekannt. Daraus lat. acte (Plin., Ps.-Apul.), ahd. atuh, at(t)ah. — [Frisk, s.v. ἀκτέα, p. 90]

4. ἀκτέα · aktea — LSJ

elder-tree, Sambucus nigra

elder-tree, Sambucus nigra, Emp. 93, B. 8.34, Hp. Nat.Mul. 2 (ἀκτῆ), Mul. 1.34 (ἀκτέα), Thphr. HP 3.13.4, Dsc. 4.173.

2 deadwort, Sambucus Ebulus

ἀ. ἕλειος, = χαμαιάκτη, deadwort, Sambucus Ebulus, ibid.

In the wild

ἀκτᾶς · aktas Aeschylus, Agamemnon 984–987
ἀκτῆς · aktēs Aeschylus, Agamemnon 493
ἀκτᾶς · aktas Aeschylus, Persians 962–966
ἀκταῖς · aktais Aeschylus, Persians 962–966
ἀκτῆς · aktēs Aeschylus, Persians 447–449
ἀκτῆς · aktēs Demosthenes, On Halonnesus 39 (DIORISIS sentence 86)

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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. ἀκτέα (scan p. 105; entry #321).
Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ἀκτέα (scan p. 66; entry #323).
Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ἀκτέα (scan pp. 90-91; entry #307).

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