The corpus record

λεπτόν

lepton

thin earthenware

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Where it lives

On the Accession of Alexander 1 · 5.6/10k
De aere aquis et locis 2 · 2.7/10k
On Hunting 2 · 2.2/10k
On the Sacred Disease 1 · 2.18/10k
Acharnians 1 · 1.41/10k
Lysistrata 1 · 1.26/10k
Peace 1 · 1.26/10k
Cratylus 2 · 1.12/10k
Frogs 1 · 1.1/10k
Luke 2 · 1.04/10k
Orestes 1 · 1.02/10k
Daniel (LXX) 1 · 0.95/10k

Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

λεπτόν · lepton — Beekes

λεπτόν (scil. κεράμιον) ‘thin earthenware’ (pap.), λεπτάγιον a kind of vase? (PHib. 1, 47, 13; 15). acc. to the editors perhaps = λεπτόγειον ‘barren land’; λεπτάριον name of a medical instrument (Herm. 38, 282); λετιτίτιδες κριθαί kind of barley (Gp.); λεπτότης [f.] ‘thinness, leanness, etc.’ (IA), Aentoobvn ‘id.’ (AP); λεπτύνω [v.] ‘to make thin, etc.’ (Hp., X., Arist.), λεπτυσμός, λέπτυνσις (Hp.), -υντικός (Dsc., … — [Beekes, s.v. λεπτόν, p. 896]

In the wild

λεπτὰ · lepta Aristophanes, Acharnians 445 (DIORISIS sentence 341)
λεπτὼ · leptō Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 282)
λεπτὰ · lepta Aristophanes, Frogs 1109–1111
λεπτὰ · lepta Aristophanes, Lysistrata 3.1203 (DIORISIS sentence 941)
λεπτὰ · lepta Aristophanes, Peace (DIORISIS sentence 52)
λεπτὰ · lepta Demosthenes, On the Accession of Alexander 27 (DIORISIS sentence 67)

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Where it came from

Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. λεπτόν (scan pp. 896-897; entry #3722).

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