The corpus record

καλλιστέφᾰνος

kallistephanos

beautiful-crowned

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Where it lives

Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k

What it meant

καλλιστέφᾰνος · kallistephanos — LSJ

beautiful-crowned

beautiful-crowned, of Demeter, h.Cer. 251, 295; of Hera, Tyrt. 2; εὐφροσύναι E. Ba. 376 (lyr.); Λιβύη Orac. ap. D.S. 8.29.

II from which the crowns of victory were taken

κ. ἐλαία the wild olive tree at Olympia, from which the crowns of victory were taken, Arist. Mir. 834a12, Paus. 5.15.3.

In the wild

καλλιστεφάνοις · kallistephanois Euripides, Bacchae 374–377

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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