1. δίδυμος · didymos — Beekes
The corpus record
δίδυμος
didumos
double
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Where it lives
- Canticum 2 · 10.28/10k
- Phoenissae 4 · 4.14/10k
- Critias 2 · 4.05/10k
- Iphigenia in Tauris 2 · 2.41/10k
- Electra 2 · 2.3/10k
- Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
- Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
- Libation Bearers 1 · 1.86/10k
- Against Aristogeiton 1 1 · 1.49/10k
- Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
- Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k
- Lysistrata 1 · 1.26/10k
Densest 12 of 29 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. δίδυμος · didymos — Chantraine
3. Δίδυμος · Didymos — Chantraine
4. Δίδυμος · Didymos — Chantraine
5. δίδυμος · didymos — Frisk
6. δίδυμος · didymos — Frisk
7. δίδῠμος · didymos — LSJ
double, twofold, Od. 19.227, etc.; διδύμαιν χειροῖν S. El. 206 (lyr.): also in sg., χερὶ διδύμᾳ with both hands, Pi. P. 2.9; δ. ἅλς, i. e. the Pontus and Bosporus, S. Ant. 967 (lyr.); δ. γένος AP 7.72 (Men.); δ. ξύλον forked, LXX Jo. 8.29; τὸ γλυκύ μοι δ., of a wife, IG 14.1974.
twin, δ. κασίγνητος Pi. N. 1.36; δ. τέκνων ἄριστα S. OC 1693 (lyr.); δ. τέκεα E. Hel. 220 (lyr.).
Subst., δίδυμοι twins, Il. 23.641, Hdt. 5.41: of the Twins in the zodiac, Eudox. ap. Hipparch. 1.2.8, Arat. 147, IG 14.1307; also δίδυμα, τά, Hdt. 6.52; δύο διδύμω E. Or. 1401 (lyr.).
the testicles, LXX De. 25.11, AP 5.125 (Phld.): sg., Herophil. ap. Gal. UP 14.11.
ovaries, Herophil. l.c., Sor. 1.12.
In the wild
- δίδυμα · didyma Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 789–793
- δίδυμα · didyma Aeschylus, Persians 1033–1034
- δίδυμα · didyma Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 778–782
- δίδυμον · didymon Aristophanes, Lysistrata 1279 (DIORISIS sentence 978)
- δίδυμος · didymos Demosthenes, Against Aristogeiton 1 79 (DIORISIS sentence 294)
- διδύμων · didymōn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.2 (DIORISIS sentence 6555)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. δίδυμος (scan p. 378; entry #1700).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. δίδυμος (scan p. 293; entry #2004).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. δίδυμος (scan pp. 419-420; entry #1552).
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