1. ἀλέα · alea — Beekes
The corpus record
ἀλέα
alea
warmth
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Where it lives
- De aere aquis et locis 2 · 2.7/10k
- On the Sacred Disease 1 · 2.18/10k
- Works and Days 1 · 1.73/10k
- De Respiratione 1 · 1.65/10k
- Ecclesiazusae 1 · 1.31/10k
- Eudemian Ethics 1 · 0.38/10k
- Metaphysics 1 · 0.13/10k
- Odyssey 1 · 0.12/10k
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
- Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k
What it meant
2. ἀλέα · alea — Chantraine
3. ἀλὲα · alea — Chantraine
4. ἀλέα · alea — Frisk
5. ἀλέα · alea — Frisk
6. ἀλέα · alea — Frisk
7. ἀλέα · alea — Frisk
8. ἀλέα · alea — LSJ
avoiding, escape, ἐγγύθι μοι θάνατος . . οὐδʼ ἀλέη Il. 22.301 (not in Od.); οὐκ ἔστιν ἀ. οὐδὲ σκέπη Hp. Aër. 19: c. gen., shelter from a thing, ὑετοῦ Hes. Op. 545.—Ep. and Ion. word. ἀλέα (B), [ᾰλ], Ion. ἀλέη, ἡ, contr. ἀλῆ Androm. ap. Gal. 14.33, cj. in Babr. 18.11 :—warmth, heat, of fire, Od. 17.23 (not in Il.), Jul. Mis. 341c; generally, warmth, or warm spot, ἐν ἀλέῃ γενέσθαι Hp. VM 16, cf. Diocl. Fr. 141; ἐσενεγκὼν ἐς ἀ. Hp. Aër. 8; χρέεσθαι περιπάτοις ἐν ἀ. Id. Vict. 3.68; ἐν ἀ. κατακείμενο
In the wild
- ἀλέᾳ · aleai Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae (DIORISIS sentence 406)
- ἀλέαις · aleais Aristotle, De Respiratione (DIORISIS sentence 40)
- ἀλέας · aleas Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 3
- ἀλέα · alea Aristotle, Metaphysics book 6 (DIORISIS sentence 1553)
- ἀλέᾳ · aleai Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 9.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7691)
- ἀλέην · aleēn Works and Days 543–544
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. ἀλέα (scan pp. 109-110; entry #342). Root candidates: *suelH-.
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ἀλέα (scan p. 69; entry #349).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ἀλέα (scan p. 96; entry #330).
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