Καρκίνος

Where it lives

• Ars Poetica 2 · 1.98/10k
• Rhetoric 2 · 0.47/10k
• Nicomachean Ethics 1 · 0.18/10k
• Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
• History 1 · 0.07/10k

What it meant

This reads as a proper name — a river, a person, a place — held only because the corpus attests it. It stands outside the library's subject, the vocabulary of the soul, so no lexicon entry is recorded.

In the wild

• Καρκίνος · Karkinos Aristotle, Ars Poetica 16
• Καρκίνῳ · Karkinōi Aristotle, Ars Poetica 17
• Καρκίνου · Karkinou Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1150b (DIORISIS sentence 2425)
• Καρκίνου · Karkinou Aristotle, Rhetoric 2
• Καρκίνου · Karkinou Aristotle, Rhetoric 3
• Καρκίνον · Karkinon Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.7 (DIORISIS sentence 1519)

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Where it came from

• Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. Καρκίνος (scan p. 693; entry #2941). Root candidates: *karkro-, *kepxtv-.
• Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Καρκίνος (scan pp. 512-513; entry #3673).
• Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Καρκίνος (scan pp. 821-822; entry #2805).

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