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ἔθνος

ethnos

group, crowd, swarm

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Distribution

Densest 12 of 108 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

Senses

1. ἔθνος · ethnos — Beekes

group, crowd, swarm

2. ἔθνος · ethnos — Chantraine

individus, soldats, animaux (Hom., Pi. Æsch.) d

3. ἔθνος · ethnos — LSJ

number of people living together, company, body of men

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Deep etymology

Authority pointers, pending review

These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.

  • Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) scan pp. 424-425; entry #1893 Review: Under source audit

    OCR root-candidate values are withheld pending source verification, rights review, and scholarly review. No root, reconstruction, cognate, or historical relationship is asserted here.

  • Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque scan p. 329; entry #2273 Review: Under source audit

The authorities' own wording is withheld pending review. Each source's identity, locator, and review status are cited above.

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