1. Ἑλένη · Helenē — Beekes
The corpus record
Ἑλένη
elene
» “ΝΑᾺ Ἑλένεια
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Where it lives
- Helen 33 · 33.73/10k
- Helen 12 · 32.19/10k
- Orestes 29 · 29.57/10k
- Iphigenia in Aulis 16 · 17.92/10k
- Trojan Women 7 · 9.89/10k
- Electra 6 · 7.94/10k
- Hecuba 5 · 6.98/10k
- Iphigenia in Tauris 5 · 6.03/10k
- Thesmophoriazusae 4 · 5.69/10k
- Agamemnon 4 · 4.93/10k
- Iliad 39 · 3.5/10k
- Odyssey 20 · 2.3/10k
Densest 12 of 26 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. Ἑλένη · Helenē — Chantraine
3. Ἑλένη · Helenē — Chantraine
4. Ἑλένη · Helenē — Frisk
5. Ἑλένη · Helenē — Frisk
6. ἑλένη · helenē — LSJ
torch, Hsch.; cf. ἑλάνη.
corposant, St. Elmoʼs fire, Lyd. Ost. 5.
wicker-basket, to carry the sacred utensils at the feast of the Brauronian Artemis, Poll. 10.191:—hence ἑλενηφόρια, the feast itself, ibid.
In the wild
- Ἑλένα · Helena Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1455–1457
- Ἑλέναν · Helenan Aeschylus, Agamemnon 685–686
- Ἑλένην · Helenēn Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1464–1467
- Ἑλένης · Helenēs Aeschylus, Agamemnon 799–804
- Ἑλένας · Helenas Aristophanes, Lysistrata 155 (DIORISIS sentence 132)
- Ἑλένην · Helenēn Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 850 (DIORISIS sentence 662)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. Ἑλένη (scan pp. 453-454; entry #2003). Root candidates: *suel-.
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Ἑλένη (scan p. 349; entry #2407).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Ἑλένη (scan p. 521; entry #1843).
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