1. γραῦς · graus — Beekes
The corpus record
γραῦς
graus
old woman
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Where it lives
- Trojan Women 4 · 5.65/10k
- Hecuba 3 · 4.19/10k
- Suppliants 2 · 2.84/10k
- Odyssey 22 · 2.53/10k
- Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k
- Gorgias 1 · 0.38/10k
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 4 · 0.37/10k
- Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
- Republic 3 · 0.34/10k
- Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
- Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k
- Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k
What it meant
2. γραῦς · graus — Frisk
3. γραῦς · graus — Frisk
4. γραῦς · graus — LSJ
old woman, Hom., esp. in Od., 1.191, al., A. Eu. 38, etc.; γ. παλαιή Od. 19.346: prov., γραῶν ὕθλος old wives’ fables, Pl. Tht. 176b: with Subst., γ. γυνή E. Tr. 490, Ar. Th. 345, D. 19.283: Com., ὁ γραῦς of an old man, Ar. Th. 1214 cod. R.
scum of boiled milk, Id. Pl. 1206, Arist. GA 743b7.
sea-crab, Arist. HA 601a18 (as v.l.), Artem. 2.14.
kind of locust, γ. σέριφος Zen. 2.94.
In the wild
- γραῦς · graus Aeschylus, Eumenides 38
- γρῆυς · grēus Aristotle, Rhetoric 3
- γραῦν · graun Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.1 (DIORISIS sentence 238)
- γραὸς · graos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.1 (DIORISIS sentence 238)
- γραῒ · grai Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 4.7 (DIORISIS sentence 3542)
- γραῒ · grai Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.7 (DIORISIS sentence 6806)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. γραῦς (scan p. 332; entry #1491).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. γραῦς (scan p. 356; entry #1352).
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