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ἐκτός

ektos

outside, far from

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Where it lives

Canticum 3 · 15.42/10k
Bel et Draco (LXX) 1 · 11.9/10k
Enchiridion 5 · 10.08/10k
Antigone 5 · 6.82/10k
1 Timothy 1 · 6.31/10k
Discourses 45 · 6.06/10k
1 Corinthians 4 · 5.92/10k
On the Public Fund 1 · 4.33/10k
Trachiniae 3 · 4.13/10k
Ajax 3 · 3.82/10k
Electra 3 · 3.46/10k
Timaeus 8 · 3.38/10k

Densest 12 of 77 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. ἐκτός · ektos — Beekes

ἐκτός [adv.] and [prep.] ‘outside, far from’ (IL). <1E *heg'-s ‘out’> *VAR ἐχθός (Locr., Delph.), [ἐϊκθός (Arg.). DER ἔκτο-θι ‘id.’ (IL), ἔκτο-θεν (Od.), Ek toa-Be(v) (IL) ‘from outside’, ἔκτο-σε (to) outside’ (E 277); ἐχθο-δαπός ‘foreign, inimical’ (Pergam. ΠΡ, after ἀλλο-δαπός; associated with ἔχθος, ἐχθρός), ἐχθόσ-δικος Sika ‘trial against a foreigner’ (Arc. III’; cf. Schwyzer 1950: 538); ἔχθοι ‘outside’ (Epid,; … — [Beekes, s.v. ἐκτός, p. 446]

2. ἑκτός · hektos — LSJ

qualities

the qualities of substances (opp. aggregates), Stoic. 2.129,150; ἑκτά in Ath. 10.420d appears to be corrupt.

3. ἐκτός · ektos — LSJ

without, outside

without, outside, opp. ἐντός:

1 out of, far from, beyond, beyond, outside of, free from, exempt from, beside, out of, beyond

as Prep. with gen., which may either precede or follow, ἐ. κλισίης Il. 14.13; τείχεος ἐ. 21.608; out of, far from, καπνοῦ καὶ κύματος ἐ. Od. 12.219; esp. in prov. phrases (v. ἔξω I fin.), ἐ. κλαυμάτων ἔχειν πόδα S. Ph. 1260; ἐ. ἔχειν πόδα (sc. τῶν καλῶν) Pi. P. 4.289; ἐ. τῶν ἐλαῶν beyond the olives, i. e. out of the course. Ar. Ra. 995 (lyr.); Geom., beyond, τοῦ Α σημείου Apollon.Perg. Con. 1.8, al.; also ἐ. ἀτασθαλίης outside of, free from . ., Thgn. 754, cf. 744; ἐ. αἰτίης Hdt. 4.133, A. Pr. 3

2 beyond

of Time, beyond, πέντε ἡμερέων Hdt. 3.80.

3 except, besides, apart from, besides, as well, unless

except, IG l.c., etc.; ἐ. ὀλίγων X. HG 1.2.3; besides, apart from, Pl. Grg. 474d, PTeb. 19.7 (ii B.C.), etc.: abs., besides, as well, GDI 1742.12; also ἐ. εἰ μή unless, 1 Ep.Cor. 15.2, Herod.Med. ap. Orib. 7.8.1, Vett.Val. 37.20, al., Luc. Pisc. 6; ἐ. ἐὰν μή Cat.Cod.Astr. 7.216; ἐ. ὅτι . . Hld. 10.5.

4 without the consent of

without the consent of, τινός PMag.Par. 1.356.

II external things, strangers, foreigners, the vulgar, the common herd, the Gentiles

abs., ἃ δʼ ἐ. external things, E. Ion 231 (lyr.), cf. Plb. 2.4.8, etc.; οἱ ἐ. strangers, foreigners, Pl. Lg. 629d, Plb. 2.47.10, etc.; also, the vulgar, the common herd: the Gentiles, LXX Si.prol. 4.

III out, transgressest

with Verbs of motion, ῥίπτειν ἐ. to throw out, S. Tr. 269; ᾖξας Id. El. 1402 (lyr.); ἐκπέμπειν Id. Ant. 18; ἕλκειν Pl. R. 616a; οὐκ ἐ. εἶ; = ἔξιθι, S. OT 676; χώρει ἐ. E. IA 1117; εἰ δʼ ἐ. ἔλθοις if thou transgressest, S. Tr. 1189.

In the wild

ἐκτὸς · ektos Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 1029–1032
ἐκτὸς · ektos Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 332–333
ἐκτὸς · ektos Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 265–266
ἐκτὸς · ektos Aristophanes, Frogs 994–995
ἐκτὸς · ektos Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora APr.Β (DIORISIS sentence 1308)
ἐκτός · ektos Aristotle, Ars Poetica 16

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Where it came from

Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. ἐκτός (scan p. 446; entry #1973).
Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ἐκτός (scan p. 344; entry #2370).

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