1. δέσποινα · despoina — Frisk
The corpus record
δέσποινα
despoina
im Dienst der Königin stehend
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Where it lives
- Ion 11 · 12.03/10k
- Trachiniae 8 · 11.01/10k
- Against Stephanus 1 4 · 7.07/10k
- Peace 4 · 5.02/10k
- Hecuba 3 · 4.19/10k
- Plutus 3 · 3.72/10k
- Clouds 3 · 3.12/10k
- Phoenissae 3 · 3.11/10k
- Thesmophoriazusae 2 · 2.84/10k
- Electra 2 · 2.65/10k
- Ajax 2 · 2.54/10k
- Lysistrata 2 · 2.52/10k
Densest 12 of 34 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. δέσποινα · despoina — LSJ
mistress, lady of the house, of Penelope, Od. 14.127; ἄλοχος δ., of the wife of Nestor, 3.403; γυνὴ δ., of Arete, 7.347; mistress of a slave, POxy. 49.4 (i/ii A. D.), BGU 55 ii 5 (ii A. D.).
princess, queen, δ. Κόλχων Pi. P. 4.11; Κύπρου Id. Fr. 122.14; δέσποινʼ ἁπασῶν, πότνιʼ Ἀθηναίων πόλι Com.Adesp. 340.1.
coupled with the names of goddesses, δ. Ἑκάτη A. Fr. 388; Ἄρτεμις S. El. 626, cf. B. 10.117, etc.; δ. νύμφη A. Fr. 342; esp. as a name of Persephone, Pl. Lg. 796b; in Arcadia, IG 5(2).514 (Lycosura), Paus. 8.37.1-10; of Κύπρις, Xenarch. 4.21.
in Thessaly, simply, = γυνή, Hsch.
at Rome, Empress, PSI 1.76.1 (vi A. D.), etc.
In the wild
- δεσποίνης · despoinēs Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 536–537
- δέσποινα · despoina Aeschylus, Persians 353–354
- δέσποινα · despoina Aristophanes, Birds 1.876 (DIORISIS sentence 651)
- δέσποιναι · despoinai Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 244)
- δέσποιναι · despoinai Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 303)
- δέσποιναι · despoinai Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 360)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. δέσποινα (scan p. 402; entry #1500).
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