1. λιλαίομαι · lilaiomai — Beekes
The corpus record
λιλαίομαι
lilaiomai
to desire, vehemently long for
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Where it lives
- Shield of Heracles 1 · 3.09/10k
- Odyssey 15 · 1.73/10k
- Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
- Iliad 9 · 0.81/10k
- Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
What it meant
2. λιλαίομαι · lilaiomai — Chantraine
3. λιλαίομαι · lilaiomai — Frisk
4. λιλαίομαι · lilaiomai — Frisk
5. λῐλαίομαι · lilaiomai — LSJ
long or desire earnestly, freq. in Hom., mostly c. inf., long to be or do so and so, τίμε . . λιλαίεαι ἠπεροπεύειν; Il. 3.399; λ. πολεμίζειν 16.89; εὐνηθῆναι 14.331: metaph., of a lance, λιλαιομένη χροὸς ἆσαι longing to taste flesh, 21.168, cf. 11.574, 15.317; λιλαιομένη πόσιν εἶναι longing for him to be her husband, Od. 1.15, 9.30, 32, 23.334: c. gen., long for, πολέμοιο, ὁδοῖο, βιότοιο, δόρποιο, Il. 3.133, Od. 1.315, 12.328, 13.31; also φόωσδε λιλαίεο struggle to the light of day, 11.223: so i
In the wild
- λιλαιόμενα · lilaiomena Aristotle, Rhetoric 3
- λιλαιόμενοι · lilaiomenoi Shield of Heracles 108–114
- ἐλιλαίετο · elilaieto Theogony 665
- λιλαιόμενα · lilaiomena Iliad 11.574
- λιλαίομαι · lilaiomai Iliad 13.253
- λιλαίεαι · lilaieai Iliad 14.331
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. λιλαίομαι (scan p. 909; entry #3767). Root candidates: *las-.
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. λιλαίομαι (scan pp. 657-658; entry #4839).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. λιλαίομαι (scan pp. 1095-1096; entry #3582).
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