1. κῆπος · kēpos — Beekes
The corpus record
κῆπος
kepos
garden, orchard, plantation
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Where it lives
- Canticum 10 · 51.41/10k
- Susanna (LXX) 1 · 13.09/10k
- Epistula Jeremiae 1 · 7.94/10k
- Minos 2 · 7.01/10k
- Amos 2 · 6.5/10k
- Critias 3 · 6.07/10k
- Esther 2 · 3.62/10k
- Epistles 6 · 3.54/10k
- Regnorum IV 5 · 2.89/10k
- Birds 3 · 2.82/10k
- John 4 · 2.62/10k
- Ion 1 · 2.49/10k
Densest 12 of 37 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. κῆπος · kēpos — Beekes
3. κῆπος · kēpos — Chantraine
4. κῆπος · kēpos — Chantraine
5. Κῆπος · Kēpos — Chantraine
6. κῆπος · kēpos — Chantraine
7. κῆπος · kēpos — Frisk
8. κῆπος · kēpos — Frisk
9. κῆπος · kēpos — LSJ
garden, orchard, or plantation, Od. 7.129, 24.247, 338; πολυδένδρεος 4.737; of any rich, highly cultivated region, as Ἀφροδίτας κᾶπος, i.e. Cyrene, Pi. P. 5.24; Διὸς κ., i.e. Libya, ib. 9.53 (but Διὸς κῆποι, also of heaven, S. Fr. 320 (lyr.); Φοίβου παλαιὸς κ., of the eastern sky, ib. 956, cf. Pl. Smp. 203b; cf. Ὠκεανοῦ κ. Ar. Nu. 271); κ. Εὐβοίας S. Fr. 24; οἱ Μίδεω κῆποι, in Macedonia, Hdt. 8.138; of the country round Panormus, Call.Hist. 2 [not found]; the enclosure for the Olympic games, Pi
a fashion of cropping the hair, Poll. 2.29, Ael.Dion. Fr. 230.
pudenda muliebria, D.L. 2.116.
v.l. for κῆβος (q.v.).
In the wild
- κήπους · kēpous Aristophanes, Birds 1 (DIORISIS sentence 799)
- κήποις · kēpois Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 151)
- κήπους · kēpous Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 211)
- κήποις · kēpois Aristophanes, Clouds 270 (DIORISIS sentence 248)
- κῆπον · kēpon Demosthenes, Against Evergus And Mnesibulus 53 (DIORISIS sentence 129)
- κήπῳ · kēpōi Demosthenes, Apollodorus Against Polycles 61 (DIORISIS sentence 154)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. κῆπος (scan pp. 735-736; entry #3119).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. κῆπος (scan p. 539; entry #3906).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. κῆπος (scan pp. 874-875; entry #2963).
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