1. γηθέω · gētheō — Beekes
The corpus record
γηθέω
getheo
to rejoice
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Where it lives
- Shield of Heracles 1 · 3.09/10k
- Electra 2 · 2.3/10k
- Iphigenia in Aulis 2 · 2.24/10k
- Iliad 23 · 2.06/10k
- Odyssey 17 · 1.96/10k
- Phaedrus 3 · 1.8/10k
- Works and Days 1 · 1.73/10k
- Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
- Hecuba 1 · 1.4/10k
- Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
- Philoctetes 1 · 1.14/10k
- Oedipus Tyrannus 1 · 1.08/10k
Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. γηθέω · gētheō — Chantraine
3. γηθέω · gētheō — Chantraine
4. γηθέω · gētheō — LSJ
rejoice, c. acc. rei, τίς ἂν τάδε γηθήσειεν Il. 9.77; γ. κατὰ θυμόν 13.416; νῶι γηθήσει προφανέντε will rejoice at our appearing, 8.378: freq. c. part., rejoice in doing . . , γέγηθας ζῶν S. Ph. 1021; πίνων E. Cyc. 168: γεγήθει φρένα Il. 11.683 (but Ἀχιλλῆος κῆρ γηθεῖ 14.140); θυμῷ γηθήσας Hes. Sc. 116; ἃν περὶ ψυχὰν γάθησεν Pi. P. 4.122; παλαιαῖσιν ἐν ἀρεταῖς γ. Id. N. 3.33; γεγηθέναι ἐπί τινι S. El. 1231, Hierocl. in CA 5p.427M.: c. dat., ἄλλος ἄλλῳ γέγαθε Axiop. 1.23; τοῖς μεγάλοις ἀεὶ κακοῖς
In the wild
- γηθήσαι · gēthēsai Aristotle, Rhetoric 1
- γεγηθὼς · gegēthōs Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.1 (DIORISIS sentence 4719)
- γέγηθα · gegētha Euripides, Bacchae (DIORISIS sentence 640)
- γέγηθα · gegētha Euripides, Hecuba (DIORISIS sentence 125)
- γέγηθα · gegētha Euripides, Helen (DIORISIS sentence 417)
- γέγηθά · gegētha Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis (DIORISIS sentence 341)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. γηθέω (scan p. 317; entry #1428).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. γηθέω (scan p. 234; entry #1606).