May, of May
= Lat. Maius, May, D.H. 1.38, Plu. Num. 19, etc.: as Adj., Καλάνδαι Μάϊαι the Calends of May, Id. Rom. 12.
The corpus record
Μάιος
maios · ὁ
May, of May
Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Libation Bearers 1 · 1.86/10k
- Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
- Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
- Electra 1 · 1.32/10k
- Electra 1 · 1.15/10k
- Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- Μαίας · Maias Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 811–814
- Μαίας · Maias Euripides, Electra 2 (DIORISIS sentence 255)
- Μαίας · Maias Euripides, Rhesus (DIORISIS sentence 152)
- Μαίη · Maiē Theogony 938–939
- Μαίων · Maiōn Iliad 4.394
- Μαίας · Maias Sophocles, Electra 1394–1396
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.