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δάιος

daios

hostile, destructive

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Where it lives

  • Seven Against Thebes 4 · 7.95/10k
  • Heracles 5 · 6.39/10k
  • Persians 3 · 5.89/10k
  • Ichneutae 1 · 5.82/10k
  • Iliad 43 · 3.86/10k
  • Libation Bearers 2 · 3.72/10k
  • Prometheus Bound 2 · 3.4/10k
  • Phoenissae 3 · 3.11/10k
  • Ajax 2 · 2.54/10k
  • Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
  • Oedipus at Colonus 2 · 1.93/10k
  • Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

hostile, destructive, burning, consuming, enemies, fighting man, hostile

hostile, destructive, Hom. only in Il., δηΐου ἐκ πολέμου 7.119; δ. ἄνδρα 6.481: esp. as epith. of πῦρ, burning, consuming, 8.181, al.; δάϊοι enemies, Pi. N. 8.28, A. Ag. 559; λάφυρα δᾴων Id. Th. 278 (dub.l.); φόβημα δαΐων S. OC 699 (lyr.): in sg., fighting man, Ar. Ra. 1022; also δᾴου μάχας S. Ichn. 239; δαΐον ὁρμάν hostile, Ar. Nu. 335 (=[Philox.]18 (anap.)); ἔπιτε δαΐαν ὁδόν Ar. Ra. 897 (lyr.).

2 unhappy, wretched

unhappy, wretched, A. Pers. 282 (lyr.), etc., S. Aj. 784, E. Andr. 838 (lyr.).

II knowing, cunning

(δαῆναι) knowing, cunning, τεχνίτης APl. 16.119 (Posid.). Adv. δαΐως Epicur. Fr. 183 codd. Plu. (δαιμονίως Usener). [δᾱϊος: but disyll. in Hom. where the last syll. is long; Trag., when disyll., written δᾷος, A. Pers. 282; δη̆ῐων at the end of a pentam., AP 6.123 (Anyte).]

In the wild

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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. δάιος (scan p. 345; entry #1539).
  • Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. δάιος (scan p. 374; entry #1405).

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