LOGOI

The corpus record

Χαλδ-αῖος

chaldaios · ὁ

Chaldaean, astrologer, Chaldaea

Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

  • Jeremias 41 · 14.79/10k
  • Daniel (LXX) 11 · 10.47/10k
  • Habacuc 1 · 9.14/10k
  • Epistula Jeremiae 1 · 7.94/10k
  • Cyropaedia 35 · 4.44/10k
  • Regnorum IV 7 · 4.05/10k
  • Baruch 1 · 3.96/10k
  • Esdras I 3 · 3.65/10k
  • Ezechiel 9 · 3.11/10k
  • Isaias 7 · 2.66/10k
  • Judith 2 · 2.28/10k
  • Esdras II 2 · 1.69/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

Chaldaean

Chaldaean, Hdt. 3.155, S. Fr. 638, etc.

II astrologer, Chaldaea, Chaldaean, in the Chaldaean language

astrologer, Arist. Fr. 35, Cic. Div. 1.1.2, Phld. Rh. 1.42S., Gem. 2.5 (since the Chaldaeans were given to astrology, cf. Hdt. 1.181, Arr. An. 7.17.1, etc.):—Χαλδαία (sc. γῆ), ἡ, Chaldaea, St.Byz., Ptol. Geog. 5.19:— Χαλδαϊκός, ή, όν, Chaldaean, γράμματα Ath. 12.529f; ἱστορίαι, title of work by Berosus, J. AJ 10.11.1, cf. Ap. 1.20; μέθοδος, i.e. astrology, S.E. M. 5.43 (so -κή alone, ib. 45); ἐπιτηδεύματα Dam. ap. Suid. s.v. Χαλδαϊκοῖς: Comp. -ώτερος Id. Pr. 206. Adv. -κῶς ib. 183:— Χαλδαϊστί, A

In the wild

6 of 141 attestations shown. Ask for more.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

Ask the librarian

Ask about Χαλδ-αῖος →