1. δίδημι · didēmi — Frisk
δίδημι s. 1. δέω. διδράσκω 5. ἀποδιδράσκω. — [Frisk, s.v. δίδημι, p. 419]
The corpus record
δίδημι
didemi
s
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Where it lives
- Alcibiades 2 2 · 4.69/10k
- Lovers 1 · 4.18/10k
- To Nicocles 1 · 3.32/10k
- Heracles 2 · 2.56/10k
- Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
- Tobias (cod. Vat. et Alex.) 1 · 1.9/10k
- Proverbia 2 · 1.8/10k
- Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
- Acharnians 1 · 1.41/10k
- Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
- Iliad 15 · 1.35/10k
- Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
Densest 12 of 38 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. δίδημι · didēmi — LSJ
bind, fetter, let them bind
redupl. form of δέω (A):—bind, fetter, ὥ ποτʼ Ἀχιλλεὺς . . δίδη μόσχοισι λύγοισιν (Ep. 3 impf. for ἐδίδη) Il. 11.105; οἱ δέ σʼ . . ἐν δεσμοῖσι διδέντων (Aristarch. for δεόντων) let them bind thee, Od. 12.54: 3 pl. ind. διδέᾱσι X. An. 5.8.24 (v.l. δεσμεύουσι).
In the wild
- δίδου · didou Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 779
- δίδου · didou Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 128–134
- δίδου · didou Aristophanes, Acharnians (DIORISIS sentence 800)
- διδῶσι · didōsi Aristophanes, Lysistrata 1120 (DIORISIS sentence 891)
- δίδου · didou Aristophanes, Peace (DIORISIS sentence 696)
- διδῶσιν · didōsin Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..39 (DIORISIS sentence 459)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. δίδημι (scan p. 377; entry #1697).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. δίδημι (scan p. 292; entry #2001).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. δίδημι (scan p. 419; entry #1551).
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