The corpus record

λίν-εος

lineos

of flax, linen

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Where it lives

Leviticus 9 · 4.81/10k
Judith 1 · 1.14/10k
Histories 12 · 0.65/10k
Epistles 1 · 0.59/10k
Cratylus 1 · 0.56/10k
Exodus 1 · 0.42/10k
Jeremias 1 · 0.36/10k
Anabasis 2 · 0.36/10k
Ezechiel 1 · 0.35/10k
Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
History 1 · 0.07/10k

What it meant

λίν-εος · lin-eos — LSJ

of flax, linen, of flax, tape-measure

of flax, linen, κιθών, θώρηξ, Hdt. 1.195, 3.47, etc.; ἱμάτιον Pl. Cra. 389b; σφαῖρα Arist. HA 616a6; στολή BGU 1036.14 (ii A. D.); νεφέλαι (i. e. nets) Call. Aet. 3.1.37 [Fr. 75.37 Pf.]; ὅπλα λ. cables of flax, Hdt. 7.36: also λινᾶ, τά, A. Fr. 206, Ar. Fr. 19: Subst. λινέη, ἡ, tape-measure used in building, IG 7.3073.128 (Lebadea), cf. Bito 63.7, 9 (v.l. λιναία); cf. λιναῖος.

In the wild

λινᾶ · lina Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 8.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7167)
λινέῳ · lineōi Herodotus, Histories 1.195.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1385)
λίνεον · lineon Herodotus, Histories 2.182.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2857)
λίνεα · linea Herodotus, Histories 2.37.2 (DIORISIS sentence 1799)
λινέην · lineēn Herodotus, Histories 2.37.3 (DIORISIS sentence 1801)
λινέους · lineous Herodotus, Histories 2.81.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2105)

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Where it came from

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