1. λῖμός · limos — Beekes
The corpus record
λιμός
limos
hunger, famine
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Where it lives
- Lamentationes 4 · 17.17/10k
- Works and Days 7 · 12.14/10k
- Jeremias 29 · 10.46/10k
- Amos 3 · 9.75/10k
- Genesis 23 · 7.66/10k
- Ruth 1 · 5.21/10k
- Fragments 2 · 5.02/10k
- Ezechiel 13 · 4.5/10k
- Oeconomica II 2 · 4.25/10k
- Constitution of the Lacedaemonians 2 · 4.11/10k
- Baruch 1 · 3.96/10k
- Persians 2 · 3.93/10k
Densest 12 of 67 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. λῖμός · limos — Chantraine
3. λῖμός · limos — Frisk
4. λῑμός · limos — LSJ
hunger, famine, δίψα τε καὶ λ. Il. 19.166; λιμῷ θανέειν Od. 12.342; λιμὸν ὁμοῦ καὶ λοιμόν Hes. Op. 243, cf. Th. 2.54; λ. αἰανής Pi. I. 1.49; λιμῷ συνεστεῶτας Hdt. 7.170; σκότῳ λ. ξύνοικος A. Ag. 1642; δείπνου προφήτην λιμόν Antiph. 217.23; ἅπανθʼ ὁ λ. γλυκέα πλὴν αὑτοῦ ποιεῖ Id. 293; ὁ δὲ λ. ἐστιν ἀθανασίας φάρμακον Id. 86.6: prov., ἀπολεῖτε λιμῷ Μηλίῳ, referring to the siege of Melos, Ar. Av. 186: metaph., ἤδη γὰρ εἶδον . . λιμόν τʼ ἐν ἀνδρὸς πλουσίου φρονήματι, γνώμην δὲ μεγάλην ἐν πένητι σώμα
a hungry wretch, Men. Kol. 78, Posidipp. 26.12, Eust. 1828.6.
In the wild
- λιμὸς · limos Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1641–1642
- λιμός · limos Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 249
- λιμός · limos Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 755–756
- λιμῷ · limōi Aeschylus, Persians 490
- λιμῷ · limōi Aeschylus, Persians 794
- λιμῶ · limō Aristophanes, Acharnians (DIORISIS sentence 532)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. λιμός (scan p. 910; entry #3771).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. λιμός (scan p. 658; entry #4843).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. λιμός (scan pp. 1096-1097; entry #3586).
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