βίος

Where it lives

• Apology 9 · 45/10k
• Meditations 80 · 27.51/10k
• Virtues and Vices 4 · 26.97/10k
• Philebus 42 · 23.83/10k
• Fragments 9 · 22.58/10k
• Suppliants 15 · 21.32/10k
• Sapientia Salomonis 14 · 20.28/10k
• Machabaeorum IV 14 · 18.15/10k
• Electra 15 · 17.28/10k
• Oedipus at Colonus 17 · 16.42/10k
• Oedipus Tyrannus 15 · 16.21/10k
• Works and Days 9 · 15.61/10k

Densest 12 of 103 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

In the wild

• βίον · bion Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1454
• βίος · bios Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1314
• βίον · bion Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1361–1362
• βίον · bion Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1492–1493
• βίον · bion Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1516–1517
• βίου · biou Aeschylus, Agamemnon 463–467

6 of 1,406 attestations shown. Ask for more.

Where it came from

• Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. βίος (scan p. 262; entry #1150).
• Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. βίος (scan pp. 190-191; entry #1293).
• Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. βίος (scan p. 2178; entry #6661).

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