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λάκκος

lakkos · ὁ

pond, cistern, tank, pit, reservoir

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Where it lives

  • Bel et Draco (LXX) 9 · 107.14/10k
  • Daniel (LXX) 10 · 9.52/10k
  • Lamentationes 2 · 8.59/10k
  • Regnorum II 6 · 3.71/10k
  • Jeremias 10 · 3.61/10k
  • Genesis 8 · 2.66/10k
  • Judith 2 · 2.28/10k
  • Paralipomenon I 3 · 2.26/10k
  • Ecclesiastes 1 · 2.21/10k
  • Zacharias 1 · 2.07/10k
  • Psalmi 7 · 2.05/10k
  • Exodus 4 · 1.69/10k

Densest 12 of 28 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

pond

pond in which water-fowl were kept, Hdt. 7.119.

b

contemptuously, of the Sea of Galilee, Porph. Chr. 55.

2 cistern, tank

cistern, tank, Ar. Ec. 154, Alex. 174.9, LXX Ge. 37.20; τὸν λ. συντρίψας D. 29.3.

3 pit, reservoir, pit

pit, reservoir, Hdt. 4.195; pit for storing wine, oil, or grain, X. An. 4.2.22, Macho ap. Ath. 13.580a; ὁ λ. τῶν λεόντων Thd. Da. 6.7(8), al.: metaph., ἀνήγαγέ με ἐκ λάκκου ταλαιπωρίας LXX Ps. 39(40).2; καταβαίνειν εἰς λ. ib. 27(28).1, al.:—written λάκος, PCair.Zen. 176.276 (iii B. C.).

4

Κούρτιος λ., = Lat. lacus Curtius, D.H. 2.42.

5

a kind of garment, λ. χρωμάτινος Peripl.M.Rubr. 6.

In the wild

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Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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