knife
knife, v.l. for κοπίς, Luc. Asin. 40, cf. Hdn. Epim. 63.
The corpus record
καινίς
kainis · ἡ
knife
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Where it lives
- Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k
- Hecuba 1 · 1.4/10k
- Helen 1 · 1.02/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- καίνʼ · kainʼ Euripides, Hecuba (DIORISIS sentence 583)
- καίνʼ · kainʼ Euripides, Helen (DIORISIS sentence 984)
- καίνʼ · kainʼ Euripides, Trojan Women (DIORISIS sentence 564)
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.