1. χοῖνιξ · choinix — Chantraine
The corpus record
χοῖνιξ
choinix
ment d’un esclave (Th
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Where it lives
- Ecclesiazusae 2 · 2.62/10k
- Peace 2 · 2.51/10k
- Fragments 1 · 2.51/10k
- Oeconomica II 1 · 2.13/10k
- Wasps 2 · 2.06/10k
- Revelation 2 · 2.02/10k
- Economics 1 · 1.61/10k
- Acharnians 1 · 1.41/10k
- Lysistrata 1 · 1.26/10k
- Plutus 1 · 1.24/10k
- Ezechiel 3 · 1.04/10k
- On the Crown 1 · 0.51/10k
Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. χοῖνιξ · choinix — Frisk
3. χοῖνιξ · choinix — Frisk
4. χοῖνιξ · choinix — LSJ
choenix, a dry measure, esp. for corn, Hdt. 1.192, etc.; the choenix of corn was one manʼs daily allowance, Id. 7.187; ἡ γὰρ χ. ἡμερησία τροφή D.L. 8.18; given to slaves, Th. 4.16; hence, ὅς κεν ἐμῆς γε χοίνικος ἅπτηται, i. e. whoever eats of my bread, Od. 19.28: prov., ἐπὶ χοίνικος καθέζεσθαι, i. e. sit idle, live in idleness, Pythag. ap. Arist. Fr. 197, cf. Plu. QConv. 2.703f, Ath. 10.452e, Ael. VH 1.26; οὐδὲ τὴν χ. ἔτι λήψει (of gold) Luc. Nav. 27; χ. Ἀττική (1/48 of the μέδιμνος = 4 κοτύλαι)
from the likeness of shape, a kind of stocks for fastening the legs, Ar. Pl. 276, D. 18.129.
= χοινικίς VI, PCair.Zen. 782 a.7 (iii B. C.), prob. in Supp.Epigr. 4.447.48 (Didyma, ii B. C.).
In the wild
- χοίνικος · choinikos Aristophanes, Acharnians (DIORISIS sentence 628)
- χοίνικα · choinika Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae (DIORISIS sentence 27)
- χοίνικας · choinikas Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae (DIORISIS sentence 315)
- χοίνικος · choinikos Aristophanes, Lysistrata 3.1203 (DIORISIS sentence 941)
- χοίνικας · choinikas Aristophanes, Peace (DIORISIS sentence 811)
- χοίνικας · choinikas Aristophanes, Peace (DIORISIS sentence 857)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. χοῖνιξ (scan p. 1286; entry #8772). Root candidates: *gheu-.
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. χοῖνιξ (scan p. 2079; entry #6122).
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