Δίδυμος

Where it lives

• John 3 · 1.96/10k
• Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2 · 0.19/10k
• Histories 2 · 0.11/10k

What it meant

This reads as a proper name — a river, a person, a place — held only because the corpus attests it. It stands outside the library's subject, the vocabulary of the soul, so no lexicon entry is recorded.

In the wild

• Δίδυμος · Didymos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 5.5 (DIORISIS sentence 4462)
• Διδύμων · Didymōn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.2 (DIORISIS sentence 5062)
• Διδύμοις · Didymois Herodotus, Histories 6.19.2 (DIORISIS sentence 6274)
• Διδύμοισι · Didymoisi Herodotus, Histories 6.19.2 (DIORISIS sentence 6275)
• Δίδυμος · Didymos New Testament, John 11.16 (DIORISIS sentence 626)
• Δίδυμος · Didymos New Testament, John 20.24 (DIORISIS sentence 1101)

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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. Δίδυμος (scan p. 378; entry #1700).
• Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Δίδυμος (scan p. 293; entry #2006).
• Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Δίδυμος (scan pp. 419-420; entry #1552).

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