λαιός · laios — LSJ
blue thrush, Petrocichla cyanus
a kind of thrush, prob. the blue thrush, Petrocichla cyanus, Arist. HA 617a15, Ant.Lib. 19.3.
The corpus record
λαιός
laios1 · ὁ
blue thrush, Petrocichla cyanus
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Where it lives
- Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
- Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
- Suppliants 1 · 1.42/10k
- Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k
- Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k
- Phoenissae 1 · 1.04/10k
- Helen 1 · 1.02/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- λαιᾶς · laias Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 714–715
- λαιούς · laious Euripides, Helen *)/aggelos (DIORISIS sentence 1017)
- λαιᾷ · laiai Euripides, Heracles 157–161
- λαιὸν · laion Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 4.288 (DIORISIS sentence 95)
- λαιὸν · laion Euripides, Phoenissae *)/aggelos (DIORISIS sentence 825)
- λαιὸν · laion Euripides, Rhesus 485 (DIORISIS sentence 275)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. λαιός (scan p. 872; entry #3647).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. λαιός (scan p. 631; entry #4632).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. λαιός (scan pp. 1045-1046; entry #3456).