1. μαστεύω · masteuō — Beekes
μαστεύω ‘to search after’. -“μαίομαι, ματεύω. — [Beekes, s.v. μαστεύω, p. 962]
The corpus record
μαστ-εύω
masteuo
to search after
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Where it lives
- Agesilaus 2 · 2.72/10k
- Helen 2 · 2.04/10k
- Hecuba 1 · 1.4/10k
- Economics 2 · 1.12/10k
- Symposium 1 · 1.05/10k
- Phoenissae 1 · 1.04/10k
- Anabasis 3 · 0.53/10k
- Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k
What it meant
2. μαστεύω · masteuō — Frisk
μαστεύω "(auf)suchen’ 5. μαίομαι und ματεύω. — [Frisk, s.v. μαστεύω, p. 1154]
3. μαστ-εύω · mast-euō — LSJ
seek, search after, crave, need
seek, search after, c. acc. pers. vel rei, τὴν μαστεύων Hes. Fr. 79.4; μαστεύων σε κιγχάνω μόλις E. Hel. 597; ἄλλον ἄλλη μ. [Epich.] 298, cf. IG 42(1).122.22 (Epid.); [χώραν] X. An. 5.6.25; τὰ φεύγοντα διώκειν καὶ μ. ib. 7.3.11; crave, need, τὰ ἐοικότα πὰρ δαιμόνων μ. Pi. P. 3.59; προφήτας δʼ οὔτινας μαστεύομεν A. Ag. 1099.
2 seek, strive
c. inf., seek, strive to do, Pi. P. 4.35, N. 8.43, X. An. 3.1.43, Cyr. 2.2.22; τὸν . . παῖδα μ. μαθεῖν, εἰ μηκέτʼ εἴη E. Ph. 36:—Med., Aesar. ap. Stob. 1.49.27, Philostr.Jun. Im. 17:—Pass., ἁδονὰ σφοδρότερον -ομένα Metop. ap. Stob. 3.1.115.—Poet. word (Hom. uses only ματεύω), also used by X., and in late Prose, Nic.Dam. 4 J., etc.
In the wild
- μαστεύουσα · masteuousa Euripides, Hecuba (DIORISIS sentence 389)
- μαστεύουσα · masteuousa Euripides, Helen 1 (DIORISIS sentence 904)
- μαστεύων · masteuōn Euripides, Helen (DIORISIS sentence 393)
- μαστεύων · masteuōn Euripides, Phoenissae *)ioka/sth (DIORISIS sentence 15)
- μαστεύοι · masteuoi Xenophon, Agesilaus 1.24 (DIORISIS sentence 50)
- μαστεύοντες · masteuontes Xenophon, Agesilaus 9.3 (DIORISIS sentence 294)
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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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