The corpus record
ἔαρ
ear
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Where it lives
- Zacharias 6 · 12.44/10k
- On Hunting 6 · 6.59/10k
- Works and Days 3 · 5.2/10k
- Oedipus Tyrannus 2 · 2.16/10k
- Psalmi 7 · 2.05/10k
- Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
- Hellenica 11 · 1.67/10k
- Sapientia Salomonis 1 · 1.45/10k
- Ezechiel 4 · 1.38/10k
- Agesilaus 1 · 1.36/10k
- Judith 1 · 1.14/10k
- Daniel (LXX) 1 · 0.95/10k
Densest 12 of 26 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
In the wild
- ἦρος · ēros Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 454–458
- ἔαρ · ear Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1098a (DIORISIS sentence 179)
- ἔαρ · ear Aristotle, Rhetoric 1
- ἔαρ · ear Aristotle, Rhetoric 3
- ἔαρι · eari Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 9123)
- ἤρων · ērōn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 4.6 (DIORISIS sentence 3428)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. ἔαρ (scan pp. 413-414; entry #1843). Root candidates: *werr-, *wesn-, *uér-.
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ἔαρ (scan p. 322; entry #2212).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ἔαρ (scan pp. 464-465; entry #1696). Root candidates: *yer-, *ier-.