1. κασίγνητος · kasignētos — Beekes
The corpus record
κασίγνητος
kasignetos
brother (of the same mother)
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Where it lives
- Electra 16 · 21.16/10k
- Orestes 12 · 12.24/10k
- Phoenissae 8 · 8.29/10k
- Works and Days 4 · 6.94/10k
- Electra 6 · 6.91/10k
- Shield of Heracles 2 · 6.18/10k
- Iphigenia in Tauris 5 · 6.03/10k
- Antigone 4 · 5.45/10k
- Seven Against Thebes 2 · 3.97/10k
- Iphigenia in Aulis 3 · 3.36/10k
- Helen 3 · 3.07/10k
- Iliad 33 · 2.96/10k
Densest 12 of 24 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. κασίγνητος · kasignētos — Chantraine
3. κασίγνητος · kasignētos — Frisk
4. κασίγνητος · kasignētos — Frisk
5. κᾰσίγνητ-ος · kasignēt-os — LSJ
brother, Od. 8.585, IG 9(1).867.6 (Corc., prob. vi B.C.), etc.; esp. of those born from the same mother, κ. καὶ ὄπατρον Il. 11.257: later as fem., sister, τώδε τὼ κασιγνήτω these two sisters, S. El. 977, cf. Ps.-Luc. Philopatr. 11: in more general sense, cousin, κ. τε ἔται τε Il. 16.456, cf. 15.545: Astrol., Gemini, Doroth. ap. Heph.Astr. 3.36.
as Adj., κασίγνητος, η, ον, brotherly, sisterly, κασίγνητον κάρα S. Ant. 899, 915, El. 1164, dub. l. in E. Or. 294; κασιγνήτοιο φόνοιο a brotherʼs murder, Il. 9.567. (Mostly poet.; also Aeol., Sapph. Supp. 1.2 (prob.), IG 12(2).526d19 (Eresus), and Cypr., Inscr.Cypr. 135.3 H. (Idalion): Thess. κατίγνειτος IG 9(2).894 (Larissa).)
In the wild
- κασιγνήτων · kasignētōn Aeschylus, Agamemnon 326–329
- κασιγνήτου · kasignētou Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 349–352
- κασίγνητον · kasignēton Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 631–633
- κασιγνήτῳ · kasignētōi Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 674
- κασιγνήτῳ · kasignētōi Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 900 (DIORISIS sentence 707)
- κασίγνητʼ · kasignētʼ Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.7 (DIORISIS sentence 6791)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. κασίγνητος (scan pp. 700-701; entry #2971). Root candidates: *katTi-.
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. κασίγνητος (scan p. 517; entry #3712).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. κασίγνητος (scan pp. 829-830; entry #2836). Root candidates: *aöro-.
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