The corpus record

γειτον-ία

geitonia · ἡ

neighbourship

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Where it lives

Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
Laws 1 · 0.1/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
Enneads 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant — LSJ

neighbourship, neighbouring region

neighbourship, πικρὰ γ. Pl. Lg. 843c, cf. Arist. Rh. 1395b9; neighbouring region, Plot. 4.4.19.

2 quarter, ward, chief official of a ward

quarter, ward, in a city, J. BJ 7.4.1:— hence γειτον-ίαρχος, ὁ, chief official of a ward, Hsch. s.v. ῥεγεονάριος.

In the wild

γειτονίας · geitonias Aristotle, Rhetoric 2
γειτονίαν · geitonian Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.2 (DIORISIS sentence 5305)
γειτονίαν · geitonian Plato, Laws 843
γειτονίαι · geitoniai Plotinus, Enneads 4.4 (DIORISIS sentence 2877)

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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