Δῖος

Where it lives

• Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k

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

• Δῖος · Dios Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 313–314

Where it came from

• Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. Δῖος (scan p. 385; entry #1729). Root candidates: *dieu-.
• Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Δῖος (scan p. 300; entry #2057).
• Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Δῖος (scan pp. 428-429; entry #1579).

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