The corpus record

δέσμη

desme · ἡ

package, bundle

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Where it lives

Prometheus Bound 5 · 8.5/10k
2 Timothy 1 · 8.34/10k
Malachias 1 · 7.2/10k
Colossians 1 · 6.46/10k
Theogony 2 · 2.9/10k
Bacchae 2 · 2.66/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 2 · 2.41/10k
Hebrews 1 · 1.99/10k
Machabaeourum III 1 · 1.99/10k
Euthyphro 1 · 1.93/10k
Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
Acts 3 · 1.67/10k

Densest 12 of 27 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. δέσμ-η · desm-ē — LSJ

package, bundle

package, bundle, Test. ap. D. 35.34, Alex. 117, Arist. Fr. 140, D.H. 3.61.

2 measure

a measure in Egypt, φοινίκων PFay. 119.4, al.; ἀσπαράγου POxy. 1212.4 (ii A.D.).

b handful

in Medicine, handful, Androm. ap. Gal. 13.1033; ὑσσώπου κόμης Ezek. Exag. 185.

2. δεσμ-ή· · desm-ē· — LSJ

In the wild

δεσμῶν · desmōn Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 1002–1005
δεσμῶν · desmōn Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 173–179
δεσμῶν · desmōn Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 3–6
δεσμῶν · desmōn Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 508–510
δεσμῶν · desmōn Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 770
δεσμῶν · desmōn Aristotle, Rhetoric 3

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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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