1. λειμών · leimōn — Beekes
moist, grassy place, humid meadow
The corpus record
λειμών
leimon
moist, grassy place, humid meadow
Figures and citations on this page are drawn from the audited corpus; none are written from memory.
Distribution
- Frogs 5 · 5.49/10k
- Suppliant Maidens 2 · 4.15/10k
- Iphigenia in Aulis 3 · 3.36/10k
- Trachiniae 2 · 2.75/10k
- Ajax 2 · 2.54/10k
- On Hunting 2 · 2.2/10k
- Critias 1 · 2.02/10k
- Birds 2 · 1.88/10k
- Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
- Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
- Suppliants 1 · 1.42/10k
- De aere aquis et locis 1 · 1.35/10k
Densest 12 of 27 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
Senses
2. λειμών · leimōn — Chantraine
« limace », dérivé i
3. λειμών · leimōn — Chantraine
&vos : m
4. λειμών · leimōn — Chantraine
6
5. λειμών · leimōn — Frisk
feuchter, grasreicher Ort, Au, feuchte Wiese
6. λειμών · leimōn — Frisk
zur Wiese gehörig
7. λειμών · leimōn — Frisk
λιμήν, λίμνη
8. λειμών · leimōn — LSJ
any moist, grassy place, meadow
Attestations
- λειμῶνι · leimōni Iliad 2.461
- λειμών · leimōn Iliad 2.463
- λειμῶνι · leimōni Iliad 2.467
- λειμῶνι · leimōni Iliad 16.151
- λειμών · leimōn Odyssey 4.605
- λειμῶνες · leimōnes Odyssey 5.72
6 of 55 attestations shown. Ask for more.
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.
- scan pp. 890-891; entry #3702 Review: Under source audit
- scan p. 644; entry #4744 Review: Under source audit
- scan pp. 1070-1071; entry #3525 Review: Under source audit
The authorities' own wording is withheld pending review. Each source's identity, locator, and review status are cited above.
Downloads
Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)
CC BY 4.0, with receipt attribution. What is exportable