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ἔδᾰφος

edaphos · τό

bottom, foundation, base

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Where it lives

Machabaeourum III 2 · 3.98/10k
Judith 2 · 2.28/10k
Critias 1 · 2.02/10k
Siracides 3 · 1.63/10k
Regnorum III 3 · 1.57/10k
Machabaeorum IV 1 · 1.3/10k
Isaias 3 · 1.14/10k
Ezechiel 3 · 1.04/10k
Job 1 · 0.75/10k
Acts 1 · 0.56/10k
Numeri 1 · 0.43/10k
Jeremias 1 · 0.36/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

bottom, foundation, base, bottom

bottom, foundation, base of anything, τῆς κατασκευῆς τὰ ἐ. Th. 1.10; ἔ. νηός bottom of a ship, Od. 5.249; ἔ. πλοίου D. 32.5, cf. Pherecr. 12; ἔ. ποταμοῦ, τῆς θαλάττης, X. Cyr. 7.5.18, Arist. HA 534a11; [ποτηρίου] Pherecr. 143.2.

2 ground-floor, pavement, ground

ground-floor, pavement, οἴκου Hdt. 8.137; καθελεῖν ἐς ἔ. raze to the ground, Th. 3.68; τὸ ἔ. ὁμαλίσασι IG ΙΙ(2).161 A 57 (Delos, iii B.C.); ἔπεσον εἰς τὸ ἔ. Act.Ap. 22.7; ἀπὸ ἐδάφους μέχρι παντὸς ὕψους CPR 95.17 (iii A. D.), etc.

3 ground, soil, soil, soil, lands and tenements, masses of earth

ground, soil, περὶ τοῦ τῆς πατρίδος ἐδάφους ἀγωνίζεσθαι for our countryʼs soil, Aeschin. 3.134, cf. D. 26.11 (pl.); ἐχθρὸς τῷ τῆς πόλεως ἐδάφει, of a mortal foe, Id. 8.39, 10.11; ὀκρυόειν ἔ. Eleg.Alex.Adesp. 1.7; soil, viewed in regard to its quality, Thphr. CP 2.4.1 (pl.), 4.11.8: pl., ἐδάφη lands and tenements (incl. houses), Is. 11.42, IG 2.780, PTeb. 302.10 (i A.D.); also, masses of earth, Epicur. Ep. 2p.48U.

4 text

text of a manuscript, opp. margin (μέτωπον), Gal. 16.837, 18(2).864.

b manuscript

manuscript, Id. 16.468 (s.v.l.).

5 background

background of puppet-theatre, Hero Aut. 30.1, al.

In the wild

ἔδαφος · edaphos Aristotle, Rhetoric 3
ἐδαφῶν · edaphōn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 9114)
ἐδάφη · edaphē Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 9113)
τοὔδαφος · toudaphos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.17 (DIORISIS sentence 2114)
ἐδάφεος · edapheos Herodotus, Histories 1.194.2 (DIORISIS sentence 1374)
ἔδαφος · edaphos Herodotus, Histories 8.137.5 (DIORISIS sentence 9246)

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