The corpus record

κάτ-οιδα

katoida

know well, understand

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Where it lives

Ichneutae 1 · 5.82/10k
Electra 5 · 5.76/10k
Trachiniae 4 · 5.5/10k
Oedipus Tyrannus 5 · 5.4/10k
Philoctetes 4 · 4.54/10k
Suppliants 2 · 2.84/10k
Antigone 2 · 2.73/10k
Ajax 2 · 2.54/10k
Orestes 2 · 2.04/10k
Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
Oedipus at Colonus 2 · 1.93/10k
Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

κάτ-οιδα · kat-oida — LSJ

know well, understand

know well, understand, c. acc. rei, ἄστρων ὁμήγυριν A. Ag. 4; οὐδὲν κάτοισθα τῶν σαυτοῦ πέρι S. Ph. 553; θεσφάτων βάξιν κατῄδη Id. Tr. 87; φύλλον νώδυνον Id. Ph. 44; κατειδὼς τὴν γυναικείαν φύσιν, ὡς . . ἥδεται Eub. 43; μηδὲν κατειδώς, ἀλλὰ προσποιούμενος Men. 628; ἵνʼ εὖ κατειδῇς S. Ichn. 164.

2 know by sight, recognize

c. acc. pers., know by sight, recognize, τὸν βοτῆρα Id. OT 1048, cf. Tr. 418, E. Or. 1183, 1521.

3 unwittingly

abs., esp. in part., οὐ κατειδώς unwittingly, Id. Med. 992 (lyr.), Supp. 1033.

4 know well that

c. part., know well that . . , κάτισθι μὴ πολλοὺς ἔτι τρόχους . . τελῶν S. Ant. 1064.

5 understand

folld. by an interrog., οὐ κάτοιδʼ ὅπως λέγεις I understand not how . . , Id. Aj. 270; οὐ κ. ὅτῳ τρόπῳ . . E. Hipp. 1245.

6 know how

c. inf., know how to, ἦ κάτοισθα δηλῶσαι λόγῳ; S. OT 1041.

In the wild

κάτοιδα · katoida Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1–9
κατειδὼς · kateidōs Aeschylus, Persians 744
κατειδότα · kateidota Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 9329)
κατειδότας · kateidotas Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 9008)
κατειδὼς · kateidōs Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 9343)
κάτοιδεν · katoiden Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 4.9 (DIORISIS sentence 3609)

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Where it came from

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