δίχα (dicha)

Where it lives

Statesman 15 · 8.85/10k
Agamemnon 4 · 4.93/10k
Oedipus at Colonus 4 · 3.86/10k
Ajax 3 · 3.82/10k
Philoctetes 3 · 3.41/10k
Prometheus Bound 2 · 3.4/10k
Sophist 5 · 3.12/10k
Bacchae 2 · 2.66/10k
Fragments 1 · 2.51/10k
Discourses 18 · 2.42/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 2 · 2.41/10k
Electra 2 · 2.3/10k

Densest 12 of 46 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. δίχα · dicha — Beekes

δίχα eVAR διχθά. =Sic. diya, -ης [f.] ‘thirst’ (11. eVAR Rarely δίψη (A. Ch. 756), also δίψος [n.] (Th.), after πνῖγος ‘stifling’, ῥῖγος ‘frost’, etc. (see Chantraine 1933: 420). DIAL Myc. di-pi-si-jo and di-pi-si-je-wi-jo (from *duytevc?). *COMP πολυ-δίψιος ‘very thirsty, arid’, of Argos (Hom.); metrical for ἐπολύ-διψος, *DER δίψιος ‘thirsty, dry’ (trag.), Suynpdc ‘id’ (Hp; after axes) διψώδης ‘id.’ (Hp.), … — [Beekes, s.v. δίχα, p. 389]

2. δίχᾰ · dicha — LSJ

I in two, asunder, divided, divided against itself, apart, aloof

Adv. in two, asunder, δ. πάντας . . ἠρίθμεον Od. 10.203; δ. πάντα δέδασται 15.412; πλευροκοπῶν δ. ἀνερρήγνυ S. Aj. 236; δ. πρίσαντες Th. 4.100; τέμνειν δ. Pl. Sph. 265e; δ. διαλαβεῖν Id. Tht. 147e; δ. τὸ στράτευμα ποιεῖν X. An. 6.4.11; δ. τὴν δύναμιν λαβεῖν catch the force divided, Th. 6.10; ὅτι δ. πέφυκε (sc. ἡ Σικελία) is divided against itself, Id. 4.61: generally, apart, aloof, διαστῆναι Hdt. 4.180; κεῖσθαι Pi. P. 5.93; οἰκεῖν S. OC 602.

2 at two, two ways, at variance, in doubt, differ, on different sides

metaph., at two, two ways, whether with others or oneself, at variance or in doubt, δ. δέ σφισι ἥνδανε βουλή Il. 18.510; δίχα θυμὸν ἔχοντες 20.32; δ. δέ σφιν ἐνὶ φρεσὶ θυμὸς ἄητο 21.386; δ. θυμὸς ἐνὶ φρεσὶ μερμηρίζει Od. 16.73; δ. θυμὸς ὀρώρεται ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα 19.524; δίχα βάζομεν 3.127; δ. μοι τὰ νοήμματα prob. in Sapph. 36; μιῇ γλώσσῃ δ. ἔχειν νόον Thgn. 91, etc.; ἐγίνοντο δ. αἱ γνῶμαι Hdt. 6.109; δόξα δʼ ἐχώρει δίχα E. Hec. 117; μαθήσεται ὅσον τό τʼ ἄρχειν καὶ τὸ δουλεύειν δίχα differ, A. Pr.

II apart from, without

Prep., c. gen., apart from, Emp. 21.19; without, πυρός, ἄρσενος, A. Th. 25, Ag. 861; ἀνθρώπων δ. S. Ph. 31; οἶος Ἀτρειδῶν δ. Id. Aj. 750; μόνη . . φασγάνου δ. Id. Tr. 1063; δ. τέλους Supp.Epigr. 1.329.25 (Istros, i A. D.); δ. γνώμης ἐμῆς καὶ συγκαταθέσεως PFlor. 58.8 (iii A. D.); δ. πραγμάτων Jul. Or. 7.212a, etc.

2 differently from, unlike

differently from, unlike, δ. ἄλλων A. Ag. 757; σῆς δ. γνώμης λέγω S. El. 547.

3 against the will of

πόλεως δ. against the will of, Id. OC 48, cf. Aj. 768.

4 except

except, δ. γε Διός A. Pr. 163; τῶν λελεγμένων δ. Id. Ch. 778.

5 besides

besides, dub. in D.H. 7.19.—As a Prep. it commonly follows its case in Trag., but precedes it in A. Pr. l.c., S. Ph. 195, al., E. IT 185.

In the wild

δίχα · dicha Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1369
δίχα · dicha Aeschylus, Agamemnon 757
δίχα · dicha Aeschylus, Agamemnon 324–325
δίχα · dicha Aeschylus, Agamemnon 861–863
δίχα · dicha Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 778
δίχα · dicha Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 162

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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. δίχα (scan p. 389; entry #1747).
Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. δίχα (scan p. 433; entry #1596).

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