The corpus record

γάνος

ganos1 · τό

brightness, sheen

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Where it lives

Persians 2 · 3.93/10k
Bacchae 2 · 2.66/10k
Agamemnon 2 · 2.47/10k
Suppliants 1 · 1.42/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k
Helen 1 · 1.02/10k

What it meant — LSJ

brightness, sheen

brightness, sheen, Sapph. 127 (?), Supp. 9.2.

2 gladness, joy, pride

gladness, joy, pride, λάφυρα . . ἀρχαῖον γάνος A. Ag. 579.

3 quickening, refreshing, water

of water and wine, from their quickening and refreshing qualities, χαίρουσαν οὐδὲν ἧσσον ἢ διοσδότῳ γάνει σπορητός (Pors. for Διὸς νότῳ γᾶν ει), i.e. rain, ib. 1392; κρηναῖον γ. Id. Pers. 483; γ. ἀμπέλου, βότρυος, ib. 615, E. Ba. 261, 383 (lyr.); also of honey, γ. μελίσσης Id. IT 634: abs., water, Lyc. 1365; Ἀσωποῦ γ. E. Supp. 1150 (lyr.).

of a divine being, παγκρατὲς γ. Hymn.Curet. 3.

In the wild

γάνει · ganei Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1389–1392
γάνος · ganos Aeschylus, Agamemnon 577–579
γάνος · ganos Aeschylus, Persians 482–487
γάνος · ganos Aeschylus, Persians 607–615
γάνος · ganos Euripides, Bacchae 378–388
γάνος · ganos Euripides, Bacchae 260–262

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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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