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κάρτᾰ

karta

strongly, very

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Where it lives

Eumenides 7 · 13.35/10k
Seven Against Thebes 6 · 11.92/10k
Agamemnon 7 · 8.63/10k
Suppliant Maidens 4 · 8.3/10k
Trachiniae 6 · 8.26/10k
Libation Bearers 4 · 7.44/10k
Rhesus 3 · 5.58/10k
Ajax 4 · 5.09/10k
Histories 93 · 5.07/10k
Persians 2 · 3.93/10k
Antigone 2 · 2.73/10k
Electra 2 · 2.3/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. κάρτα · karta — Beekes

κάρτα [adv.] ‘strongly, very’ (Ion., trag.). < GR> *ETYM From *xaptt¢ = κρατύς (cf. καρτερός, Kaptiotoc); see on » Κράτος, On the ending -a, see Schwyzer: 6221. on the ablaut type, see Ruijgh 1980: 189-198. — [Beekes, s.v. κάρτα, p. 697]

2. κάρτα · karta — Frisk

κάρτα Adv. ‘stark, sehr’ (vorw. ion. u. trag.). — Von *xagris = — [Frisk, s.v. κάρτα, p. 825]

3. κάρτᾰ · karta — LSJ

very, extremely, very much, very

very, extremely; with Verbs, very much; κ. κακῶς ῥιγῶ Hippon. 16; ἐσθλοὺς κ. μαχητάς Aristeas Epic. Fr. 3 [5 Bernabé]; κ. ἀπὸ θερμέων χωρέων very hot, Hdt. 2.27; κ. θεραπεύειν τινά, opp. μετρίως, Id. 3.80; κ. δεόμενος Id. 8.59; κ. ὀξύ Hp. Acut. 58; κ. πρευμενεῖς A. Ag. 840; κ. ἰδεῖν ὁμόπτερος Id. Ch. 174; εἰ καὶ μακρὰ κ. ἐστίν S. Tr. 1218; ὥς σου κ. νῦν μνείαν ἔχω E. Med. 328, cf. 222, etc.; once in Pl., πηλοῦ κ. βραχέος Ti. 25d; ληρεῖς ἔχων κ. Ar. Av. 342 (troch.).

2 surely, in very deed, true, all

surely, in very deed, κ. δʼ ἔστʼ ἐγχώριος A. Th. 413; κ. δʼ ὢν ἐπώνυμος true to thy name, Id. Eu. 90, cf. Th. 658; κ. δʼ εἰμὶ τοῦ πατρός all on the fatherʼs side, Id. Eu. 738; κ. δʼ εἴσʼ ὅμαιμοι Id. Th. 939 (lyr.); ἦ κ. Id. Ag. 592, 1252, S. El. 312, 1278, etc.; σὺ δὲ κ. φείδῃ Amips. 22.

3 yes, verily, with a vengeance

καὶ κ., used to increase the force of a previous statement, τὰ ἀνέκαθεν λαμπροί, ἀπὸ δὲ Ἀλκμέωνος . . καὶ κ. λαμπροί Hdt. 6.125; esp. in dialogue, yes, verily, ἦ γάρ τινες ναίουσι . .; Answ. καὶ κ. . . S. OC 65; ἆρʼ ἄν τί μου δέξαιο . .; Answ. καὶ κάρτα γ E. Hipp. 90; once in Ar., καὶ κ. μέντἂν . . καθείλκετε Ach. 544; in Hdt. also, τὸ κ. 1.71, 4.181; esp. with a slightly iron. sense, with a vengeance, ἐς ὃ δὴ καὶ τὸ κ. ἐπύθοντο 1.191, cf. 3.104, 6.52.

In the wild

κάρτʼ · kartʼ Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1206
κάρτα · karta Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1252–1253
κάρτʼ · kartʼ Aeschylus, Agamemnon 277
κάρτα · karta Aeschylus, Agamemnon 592
κάρτʼ · kartʼ Aeschylus, Agamemnon 799–804
κάρτα · karta Aeschylus, Agamemnon 838–840

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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. κάρτᾰ (scan p. 697; entry #2958).
Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. κάρτᾰ (scan p. 515; entry #3695).
Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. κάρτᾰ (scan p. 825; entry #2821).

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