1. λήκυθος · lēkythos — Beekes
casket for oil or perfume
The corpus record
λήκῠθος
lekuthos
casket for oil or perfume
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Distribution
- Ecclesiazusae 6 · 7.86/10k
- Frogs 5 · 5.49/10k
- Hippias Minor 1 · 2.3/10k
- Thesmophoriazusae 1 · 1.42/10k
- Plutus 1 · 1.24/10k
- Charmides 1 · 1.2/10k
- Birds 1 · 0.94/10k
- History 5 · 0.33/10k
- Discourses 2 · 0.27/10k
- Odyssey 2 · 0.23/10k
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2 · 0.19/10k
- Nicomachean Ethics 1 · 0.18/10k
Senses
2. λήκυθος · lēkythos — Chantraine
huile, notamment de l
3. λήκῠθος · lēkythos — LSJ
oil-flask, casket for unguents, cosmetics, rhetorical bombast
Attestations
- ληκύθῳ · lēkythōi Odyssey 6.79
- ληκύθῳ · lēkythōi Odyssey 6.215
- λήκυθος · lēkythos Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1123a (DIORISIS sentence 1243)
- ληκύθου · lēkythou Epictetus, Discourses 1.19 (DIORISIS sentence 981)
- λήκυθον · lēkython Epictetus, Discourses 1.24 (DIORISIS sentence 1234)
- Λήκυθον · Lēkython Thucydides, History 4.113.2 (DIORISIS sentence 3232)
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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.
- scan p. 903; entry #3744 Review: Under source audit
- scan pp. 653-654; entry #4812 Review: Under source audit
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