1. κέλης · kelēs — Beekes
The corpus record
κέλης
keles
runner
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Where it lives
- Peace 2 · 2.51/10k
- De Interpretatione 1 · 1.61/10k
- Lysistrata 1 · 1.26/10k
- History 3 · 0.2/10k
- Histories 3 · 0.16/10k
- Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k
- Odyssey 1 · 0.12/10k
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
What it meant
2. κέλης · kelēs — Chantraine
3. Κέλης · Kelēs — Chantraine
4. κέλης · kelēs — Frisk
5. κέλης · kelēs — LSJ
courser, riding-horse, Ὀδυσσεὺς ἀμφʼ ἑνὶ δούρατι βαῖνε, κέληθʼ ὡς ἵππον ἐλαύνων bestrode one plank, as if riding on a horse, Od. 5.371 (κ. ἵππος also in later Prose, SIG 314A 7,36, al. (Arc., iv B.C.), Plu. Alex. 3, Paus. 6.14.4); κ. καὶ ἅρματα Hdt. 7.86; ἵππον κέλητʼ ἀσκοῦντα Eup. 152; κέλης κέλητα παρακελητιεῖ Ar. Pax 901; freq. in the titles of Pindarʼs Odes, as O. 1; νίκας Πυθοῖ καὶ Ἰσθμοῖ καὶ Νεμέᾳ τεθρίπποις τε καὶ κέλησι Pl. Ly. 205c, cf. Plin. HN 34.19; κ. πωλικός, τέλειος, IG 2.966.
fast-sailing yacht with one bank of oars, Hdt. 8.94, Th. 4.9, 8.38, X. HG 1.6.36, Ephipp. 5.17 (anap.), Plb. 5.94.8, Plin. HN 7.208, etc.
sens. obsc. (with play on I), Ar. Lys. 60; so ἥρως Κέλης Pl.Com. 174.18.
pudenda muliebria, Eust. 1539.34.
In the wild
- κελήτων · kelētōn Aristophanes, Lysistrata 60 (DIORISIS sentence 46)
- κέλητα · kelēta Aristophanes, Peace 900 (DIORISIS sentence 622)
- κέλης · kelēs Aristophanes, Peace 900 (DIORISIS sentence 622)
- κέλης · kelēs Aristotle, De Interpretatione (DIORISIS sentence 9)
- κέλητι · kelēti Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 8.2 (DIORISIS sentence 7417)
- κέλητας · kelētas Herodotus, Histories 7.86.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7568)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. κέλης (scan p. 716; entry #3052). Root candidates: *kel-.
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. κέλης (scan p. 527; entry #3821).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. κέλης (scan pp. 848-849; entry #2907).
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