The corpus record

δείλαιος

deilaios

wretched, sorry, paltry

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Where it lives

Baruch 3 · 11.87/10k
Nahum 1 · 10.83/10k
Hecuba 6 · 8.38/10k
Electra 5 · 5.76/10k
Trachiniae 4 · 5.5/10k
Antigone 4 · 5.45/10k
Osee 1 · 2.65/10k
Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
Libation Bearers 1 · 1.86/10k
Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
Suppliants 1 · 1.42/10k
Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

δείλαιος · deilaios — LSJ

wretched, sorry, paltry, sorry, paltry

wretched, sorry, paltry, not in Hom., freq. in Trag., esp. of persons, A. Pr. 580 (lyr.), etc.; δείλαιε τοῦ νοῦ S. OT 1347 (lyr.); δ. χάρις a sorry kindness, A. Ch. 517; δ. σποδός paltry dust, S. El. 758; δ. ἄχεα, ἀλγηδών, δύα, Emp. 145, S. OC 513 (lyr.), Ant. 1311 (lyr.); γῆρας E. Hec. 156 (lyr.): sts. found in Com. (v. infr.) and Prose, Lys. 24.23 (Sup.), Aeschin. 1.172: in later Prose, Jul. Or. 1.29b. (The penult. is short in S. Ant. 1311, El. 849 (lyr.), E. Supp. 279 (lyr.), Ar. Eq. 139, V.

In the wild

δειλαία · deilaia Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 517
δείλαιος · deilaios Aeschylus, Persians 320–325
δειλαίαν · deilaian Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 580–582
δειλαίᾳ · deilaiai Euripides, Electra 3 (DIORISIS sentence 65)
δειλαία · deilaia Euripides, Hecuba 155 (DIORISIS sentence 51)
δειλαίου · deilaiou Euripides, Hecuba 155 (DIORISIS sentence 51)

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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.

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