1. κελαινός · kelainos — Beekes
The corpus record
κελαινός
kelainos
with black clouds
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Where it lives
- Prometheus Bound 4 · 6.8/10k
- Shield of Heracles 2 · 6.18/10k
- Antigone 3 · 4.09/10k
- Electra 2 · 2.65/10k
- Heracles 2 · 2.56/10k
- Agamemnon 2 · 2.47/10k
- Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
- Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
- Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k
- Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k
- Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k
- Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. κελαινός · kelainos — Chantraine
3. κελαινός · kelainos — Chantraine
4. κελαινός · kelainos — Chantraine
5. κελαινός · kelainos — Frisk
6. κελαινός · kelainos — Frisk
7. κελαινός · kelainos — LSJ
black, dark, freq. in Hom., αἷμα Il. 1.303, Od. 16.441; νύξ Il. 5.310, etc.; κῦμα 9.6; λαῖλαψ 11.747; χθών 16.384; δέρμα 6.117; ἦτορ Hes. Sc. 429: ὄμβρος Emp. 111.6; κ. φῦλον a swarthy race, of the Ethiopians, A. Pr. 808; Ἔπαφος ib. 851; ξίφη, λόγχα, S. Aj. 231, Tr. 856 (both lyr.), cf. E. Ba. 628 (troch., prob. from the colour of the metal rather than black with blood-stains); of things on which the sun does not shine, esp. of the nether world, dark, murky, A. Pr. 433 (lyr.); Ἐρινύες Id. Ag. 46
In the wild
- κελαινός · kelainos Aeschylus, Agamemnon 108–120
- κελαιναὶ · kelainai Aeschylus, Agamemnon 463–467
- κελαινοῦ · kelainou Aeschylus, Eumenides 829–833
- κελαινῆς · kelainēs Aeschylus, Persians 426–428
- κελαινὸν · kelainon Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 1050–1052
- κελαινὸς · kelainos Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 429–435
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. κελαινός (scan p. 714; entry #3039).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. κελαινός (scan p. 526; entry #3797).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. κελαινός (scan pp. 845-846; entry #2897).
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