1. δέμω · demō — Beekes
The corpus record
δέμω
demo
to build
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Where it lives
- Ichneutae 1 · 5.82/10k
- Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
- Oedipus at Colonus 2 · 1.93/10k
- Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
- Hecuba 1 · 1.4/10k
- Iliad 5 · 0.45/10k
- Histories 6 · 0.33/10k
- Odyssey 2 · 0.23/10k
What it meant
2. δέμω · demō — Chantraine
3. δέμω · demō — Chantraine
4. δέμω · demō — Frisk
5. δέμω · demō — Frisk
6. δέμω · demō — LSJ
build, τεῖχος ἔδειμαν Il. 7.436, etc.; τείχη παλαιὰ δείμας E. Rh. 232:—Med., ἐδείματο οἴκους he built him houses, Od. 6.9; ἄστη Pl. Ax. 370b.
generally, construct, prepare, δ. ἀλωήν h.Merc. 87; δ. ὁδόν, Lat. munire viam, Hdt. 2.124:— Pass., ἁμαξιτὸς δέδμηται Id. 7.200: metaph. of persons, δέδμηνται πάση κόσμος Ἰαονίη Haussoullier Milet p. 141.
In the wild
- δεῖμʼ · deimʼ Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 514
- δείμασι · deimasi Euripides, Hecuba (DIORISIS sentence 26)
- δείμας · deimas Euripides, Rhesus 1 (DIORISIS sentence 157)
- ἔδειμαν · edeiman Herodotus, Histories 1.179.2 (DIORISIS sentence 1256)
- ἔδειμαν · edeiman Herodotus, Histories 1.179.3 (DIORISIS sentence 1257)
- ἔδειμαν · edeiman Herodotus, Histories 2.124.3 (DIORISIS sentence 2441)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. δέμω (scan pp. 361-362; entry #1625).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. δέμω (scan p. 276; entry #1899).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. δέμω (scan pp. 396-397; entry #1485).
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