The corpus record

Ἑλλην-ίς

*ellenis · ἡ

Grecian woman

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Where it lives

Letter 9 1 · 8.76/10k
Panathenaicus 9 · 5.68/10k
Helen 2 · 5.36/10k
Against Nicomachus 1 · 5.32/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 4 · 4.82/10k
For the Liberty of the Rhodians 1 · 4.57/10k
Third Olynthiac 1 · 4.25/10k
On the Navy-Boards 1 · 3.89/10k
To Philip 3 · 3.42/10k
Helen 3 · 3.07/10k
Theages 1 · 2.88/10k
Thesmophoriazusae 2 · 2.84/10k

Densest 12 of 43 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Ἑλλην-ίς · Hellēn-is — LSJ

= fem. of Ἑλλήνιος, Pi. P. 11.50; ἀρεταὶ ἀέθλων Id. Pae. 4.23, cf. Cratin. 293, Lys. 30.18, Th. 1.35, D. 18.304, etc.; Ἑ. διάλεκτος, γλῶττα, Phld. D. 3.14.

II Grecian woman

Ἑλληνίς (sc. γυνή), ἡ, Grecian woman, E. El. 1076, Men. 79.

2 pagan woman

pagan woman, Jul. Ep. 112.

In the wild

Ἑλληνίδων · Hellēnidōn Aeschylus, Persians 334–336
Ἑλληνὶς · Hellēnis Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae (DIORISIS sentence 717)
Ἑλληνίς · Hellēnis Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae (DIORISIS sentence 718)
Ἑλληνίδας · Hellēnidas Demosthenes, Against Aristocrates 139 (DIORISIS sentence 494)
Ἑλληνίδας · Hellēnidas Demosthenes, Against Aristocrates 141 (DIORISIS sentence 501)
Ἑλληνὶς · Hellēnis Demosthenes, Against Timocrates 216 (DIORISIS sentence 723)

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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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