1. ἰσθμός · isthmos — Beekes
small entry, spit of land, strait of earth or sea, neck
The corpus record
ἰσθμ-ός
isthmos
small entry, spit of land, strait of earth or sea, neck
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Distribution
- De Mundo 5 · 7.89/10k
- Funeral Oration 2 · 4.92/10k
- Histories 52 · 2.83/10k
- History 36 · 2.41/10k
- Crito 1 · 2.4/10k
- Critias 1 · 2.02/10k
- Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
- Thesmophoriazusae 1 · 1.42/10k
- Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k
- Panegyricus 1 · 0.93/10k
- Hellenica 5 · 0.76/10k
- Antidosis 1 · 0.57/10k
Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
Senses
2. ἰσθμός · isthmos — Chantraine
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3. ἰσθμ-ός · isthm-os — LSJ
neck, narrow passage
Attestations
- ἰσθμὸν · isthmon Plato, Timaeus 69 (DIORISIS sentence 655)
- ἰσθμός · isthmos Herodotus, Histories 1.174.3 (DIORISIS sentence 1228)
- Ἰσθμὸν · Isthmon Herodotus, Histories 1.174.5 (DIORISIS sentence 1231)
- ἰσθμὸν · isthmon Herodotus, Histories 6.36.2 (DIORISIS sentence 6362)
- ἰσθμοῦ · isthmou Herodotus, Histories 6.36.2 (DIORISIS sentence 6363)
- ἰσθμοῦ · isthmou Herodotus, Histories 6.36.2 (DIORISIS sentence 6364)
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