1. ἐλάτη · elatē — Beekes
The corpus record
ἐλάτη
elate
pine, fir
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Where it lives
- Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k
What it meant
2. ἐλάτη · elatē — Beekes
3. ἐλάτη · elatē — Chantraine
4. ἐλάτη · elatē — Chantraine
5. ἐλάτη · elatē — Frisk
6. ἐλάτη · elatē — LSJ
silver fir, Abies cephalonica, ὑψηλή Il. 5.560; περιμήκετος κετος 14.287; οὐρανομήκης Od. 5.239, cf. Thphr. HP 3.9.6, etc.; also, Abies pectinata, ib. 5.8.3.
oar, as made of pine-wood, λεύκαινον ὕδωρ ξεστῇς ἐλάτῃσιν Od. 12.172, cf. Il. 7.5; later, ship or boat, E. Ph. 208 (lyr.), Alc. 444 (lyr.).
the spathe of the date inflorescence, Dsc. 1.109.4 (but, = βόρασσος (q.v.), ib. 5), cf. Epich. 160, Gal. 12.151.
sea-weed supposed to resemble the fir, Cystoseira Abies-marina, Thphr. HP 4.6.2.
In the wild
- ἐλάταις · elatais Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 1 (DIORISIS sentence 71)
Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. ἐλάτη (scan p. 448; entry #1984).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ἐλάτη (scan p. 346; entry #2386).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ἐλάτη (scan pp. 513-514; entry #1825).
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