γῠναικ-εῖος (gunaikeios)

Where it lives

1 Peter 1 · 5.8/10k
Libation Bearers 3 · 5.58/10k
Thesmophoriazusae 3 · 4.26/10k
Esther 2 · 3.62/10k
De aere aquis et locis 2 · 2.7/10k
Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
Against Eratosthenes 1 · 2.07/10k
Constitution of the Lacedaemonians 1 · 2.06/10k
Helen 2 · 2.04/10k
Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
Alcibiades 1 2 · 1.95/10k
Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k

Densest 12 of 37 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. γῠναικ-εῖος · gynaik-eios — LSJ

of, belonging to women, feminine, a womanʼs, woman, leucorrhoea, with women

of or belonging to women, feminine, γυναικεῖαι βουλαί a womanʼs designs, Od. 11.437; λουτρόν Hes. Op. 753; ἔργα Hdt. 4.114; κόσμος Pl. R. 373c; σκεῦος (i.e. woman) 1 Ep.Pet. 3.7; γ. αἰδοῖον, τόποι, χῶροι, Gal. UP 15.3, Aret. SA 2.11, CA 2.10; κόλπος ( = αἰδοῖον) Sor. 1.16; ῥοῦς leucorrhoea, Id. 2.43; γονόρροια Aret. SD 2.11; ἰατρός Sor. 2.3; γ. ἀγορά Thphr. Char. 2.9; ἡ γ. θεός, = Lat. bona dea, Plu. Caes. 9, Cic. 19; γ. πόλεμος war with women, AP 7.352 (Mel. (?)).

2 womanish, effeminate

in bad sense, womanish, effeminate, πένθος Archil. 9.10; δράματα Ar. Th. 151; μαθήματα Pl. Alc. 1.127a; γ. καὶ σμικρὰ διάνοια Id. R. 469d. Adv. -είως, πικραίνεσθαι Id. Lg. 731d; ἐμπικραίνεσθαι Eus.Mynd. 54; διακεῖσθαι D.C. 38.18.

II

as Subst.,

1 part of the house reserved for the women

ἡ γυναικεία, Ion. -ηΐη, = γυναικών, part of the house reserved for the women, Hdt. 5.20, LXX To. 2.11.

b

ἡ γ. (sc. ἀγορά), Thphr. Char. 22.10.

2 partes muliebres

τὰ γυναικεῖα partes muliebres, Hp. Epid. 1.4.5 [1.26.εʹ], Aret. SA 2.11.

b

= τὰ καταμήνια, Hp. Aph. 5.28, Arist. PA 648a31, al., LXX Ge. 18.11.

c lochia

lochia, Gal. 17(2).817.

d female disorders

female disorders, title of works by Hp. and Sor., cf. Thphr. HP 4.8.6, Aret. CA 1.3.

e remedies for female complaints

(sc. φάρμακα) remedies for female complaints, Hp. Mul. 1.64.

f womenʼs garments

womenʼs garments, PSI 4.341.7 (iii B. C.).

3

γυναικεῖον, τό, = στίβι, Dsc. 5.84.

2. γῠναικ-ήιος · gynaik-ēios — LSJ

In the wild

γυναικείῳ · gynaikeiōi Aeschylus, Agamemnon 594–597
γυναικείων · gynaikeiōn Aeschylus, Eumenides 854–857
γυναικείοισιν · gynaikeioisin Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 32–36
γυναικείαν · gynaikeian Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 629–630
γυναικείους · gynaikeious Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 877–878
γυναικείῳ · gynaikeiōi Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 187–188

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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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