ἠώς (eos)

Where it lives

Works and Days 7 · 12.14/10k
Habacuc 1 · 9.14/10k
Rhesus 3 · 5.58/10k
Canticum 1 · 5.14/10k
De Mundo 2 · 3.15/10k
Iliad 33 · 2.96/10k
Daniel (LXX) 3 · 2.86/10k
Odyssey 22 · 2.53/10k
Histories 44 · 2.4/10k
Hippias Minor 1 · 2.3/10k
Regnorum I 4 · 2.16/10k
Machabaeourum III 1 · 1.99/10k

Densest 12 of 42 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ἠώς · ēōs — LSJ

dawn, light of day, morning, at morn, early, the morning long, daybreak, to-morrow

dawn, ἦμος δʼ ἠριγένεια φάνη ῥοδοδάκτυλος Ἠώς Od. 2.1; light of day, ὅσον τʼ ἐπικίδναται ἠ. Il. 7.451, etc.; esp. morning as a time of day, opp. μέσον ἦμαρ, δείλη, 21.111, etc.: gen. ἠοῦς at morn, early, 8.470, 525: acc. ἠῶ the morning long, Od. 2.434; στάντα πρὸς πρώτην ἕω S. OC 477; ἐξ ἠοῦς μέχρι δείλης ὀψίης Hdt. 7.167; ἐξ ἠοῦς εἰς ἠοῦν Hedyl. l.c.; ἠοῦν ἐξ ἠοῦς AP l.c.; ἅμα ἠοῑ with, i.e. at, daybreak, Hdt. 7.219; Att. ἅμα ἕῳ or ἅμα τῇ ἕῳ, Th. 2.90, 4.72; πρὸ τῆς ἕω ib. 31; Ep. ἠῶθι πρό Il.

2 day

day, Il. 1.493, al., Od. 19.192, Theoc. 12.1, Call. Aet. 1.1.1 [Fr. 178.1 Pf.]; ἠ. δέ μοί ἐστιν ἥδε δυωδεκάτη, ὅτε. . Il. 21.80; κατήϊεν ἐς δύσιν ἠ. Musae. 110; μεσάτη ἠ. Orph. A. 649.

3 life

life, Q.S. 10.431; φῶς λίπες ἠοῦς IG 14.1853.

4 the East, South, to the East

the East, πρὸς ἠῶ τʼ ἠέλιόν τε Il. 12.239 (South acc. to Str. 10.2.12); ἀπὸ ἠοῦς πρὸς ἑσπέρην Hdt. 2.8; τὰ πρὸς τὴν ἠῶ ibid.; τὰ πρὸς ἠῶ τε καὶ ἥλιον ἀνατέλλοντα Id. 4.40, cf. Pl. Lg. 760d, etc.; πρὸς ἕω τῆς πόλεως, τοῦ ποταμοῦ, to the East of . . , X. HG 5.4.49, Plu. Luc. 27; πρὸ ἠοῦς τοῦ βωμοῦ IG 7.235.45 (Oropus, iv B.C.).

II the goddess of dawn

pr. n., Ἠώς the goddess of dawn, Il. 11.1, Hes. Th. 372, 378, etc. (Cf. Skt. uṣá̄s ‘dawn’, Lat. aurora, etc.)

In the wild

ἕω · heō Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 139)
ἕω · heō Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 163)
ἕω · heō Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1164a (DIORISIS sentence 3093)
ἕω · heō Aristotle, Politics 1330a (DIORISIS sentence 2732)
ἠὼς · ēōs Aristotle, Rhetoric 3
ἕω · heō Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.2 (DIORISIS sentence 356)

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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. ἔως (scan pp. 539-542; entry #2374).
Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ἕως (scan pp. 408-409; entry #2888).

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