The corpus record

εἰκ-ᾰσία

eikasia · ἡ

likeness, representation

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Where it lives

Republic 3 · 0.34/10k
Memorabilia 1 · 0.28/10k
Enneads 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

εἰκ-ᾰσία · eik-asia — LSJ

likeness, representation

likeness, representation, X. Mem. 3.10.1.

II comparison, estimate

comparison, Plu. Them. 29; estimate, ἐξ εἰκασίας PTeb. 61 (a). 186, al. (ii B. C.).

III conjecture, doubt

conjecture, Hp. Morb. 1.1, Pl. Sis. 390c, Ph. 2.91, Hierocl. p.37 A. (pl.), etc.; doubt, Phld. Rh. 1.249S.

IV apprehension of, by means of images, shadows

apprehension of or by means of images or shadows, Pl. R. 511e, 534a.

In the wild

εἰκασίαν · eikasian Plato, Republic 6.511 (DIORISIS sentence 4155)
εἰκασίαν · eikasian Plato, Republic 7.534 (DIORISIS sentence 4575)
εἰκασίαν · eikasian Plato, Republic 7.534 (DIORISIS sentence 4572)
εἰκασίαι · eikasiai Plotinus, Enneads 4.4 (DIORISIS sentence 2758)
εἰκασία · eikasia Xenophon, Memorabilia 3.10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1342)

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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