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κύριος

kurios

lord, ruler, possessor

Figures and citations on this page are drawn from the audited corpus; none are written from memory.

Distribution

Densest 12 of 205 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

Senses

1. κύριος · kyrios — Beekes

lord, ruler, possessor

2. κύριος · kyrios — Chantraine

adj

3. κύριος · kyrios — Frisk

herrschend, entscheidend, gültig, bestimmt

4. κύριος · kyrios — Frisk

Von κυρόω noch xvewrfiges‘ ἄρχοντες H

5. κύριος · kyrios — LSJ

having power

6. κῡρίως · kyriōs — LSJ

like a lord

Attestations

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Deep etymology

Authority pointers, pending review

These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.

  • Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) scan pp. 853-854; entry #3572 Review: Under source audit
  • Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque scan pp. 615-616; entry #4519 Review: Under source audit
  • Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch scan p. 1025; entry #3377 Review: Under source audit

The authorities' own wording is withheld pending review. Each source's identity, locator, and review status are cited above.

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