1. λιτανός · litanos — Chantraine
2. λιτανός « suppliant » (Æsch.); d’où les verbes λιταίνω (E. EL 1215) et surtout λιτανεύω «supplier » (Hom., — [Chantraine, s.v. λιτανός, p. 660]
The corpus record
λῐτᾰν-ός
litanos
2
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Where it lives
- Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
- Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
What it meant
2. λῐτᾰν-ός · litan-os — LSJ
praying, suppliant, prayer
praying, suppliant, μέλη A. Supp. 809 (lyr.): as Subst. λιτανά, τά, = λιταί, ἀμφὶ λιτάνʼ ἕξομεν engage in prayer, Id. Th. 102 (Seidler for ἀμφίλιταν or ἀμφὶ λιτὰν).
In the wild
- λιτάνʼ · litanʼ Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 101–102
- λιτανὰ · litana Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 808–809
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.
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