The corpus record
Δίος
dios
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Where it lives
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 22 · 2.06/10k
- Economics 1 · 1.61/10k
- Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
- Ion 1 · 1.09/10k
- Helen 1 · 1.02/10k
- Orestes 1 · 1.02/10k
- Politics 2 · 0.31/10k
- Discourses 1 · 0.13/10k
- History 1 · 0.07/10k
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
- Δίων · Diōn Aristotle, Economics 1344b (DIORISIS sentence 88)
- Δίων · Diōn Aristotle, Politics 1312a (DIORISIS sentence 2120)
- Δίων · Diōn Aristotle, Politics 1312b (DIORISIS sentence 2137)
- Δίων · Diōn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.4 (DIORISIS sentence 658)
- Δίων · Diōn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2439)
- Δίων · Diōn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2559)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. Δίος (scan p. 385; entry #1729). Root candidates: *dieu-.
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Δίος (scan pp. 428-429; entry #1579).
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