The corpus record

κάρηνον

karenon · τό

head, peaks

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Where it lives

Shield of Heracles 2 · 6.18/10k
Iliad 15 · 1.35/10k
Odyssey 8 · 0.92/10k
Laws 2 · 0.19/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

κάρηνον · karēnon — LSJ

head, peaks

head, mostly in pl. (as always in Hom.), ἀνδρῶν κάρηνα, periphr. for ἄνδρες, Il. 11.500; νεκύων ἀμενηνὰ κ. Od. 10.521, etc.; βοῶν ἴφθιμα κ. Il. 23.260; ἵππων ξανθὰ κ. 9.407: metaph., of mountain peaks, Οὐλύμποιο κ. 1.44, etc.; of towns, πολλάων πολίων κατέλυσε κάρηνα 2.117, 9.24; Μυκάλης αἰπεινὰ κ. 2.869: in pl., of a single person, κάρηνα . . Μελανίππου σπάσας E. Fr. 537: sg. in h.Hom. 8.12, 28.8, Mosch.ll. cc., Coluth. 264, Anacreont. 1.11.

In the wild

κάρηνα · karēna Herodotus, Histories 7.140.2 (DIORISIS sentence 7846)
κάρηνα · karēna Shield of Heracles 233–234
καρήνοις · karēnois Shield of Heracles 236
καρήνων · karēnōn Iliad 1.44
κάρηνα · karēna Iliad 11.158
κάρηνα · karēna Iliad 11.500

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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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