The corpus record

μᾰθητ-ής

mathetes · ὁ

learner, pupil

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Where it lives

John 78 · 51.05/10k
Mark 46 · 41.8/10k
Matthew 73 · 40.7/10k
Luke 37 · 19.19/10k
Acts 28 · 15.54/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 81 · 7.57/10k
Meno 6 · 6.13/10k
Euthyphro 3 · 5.8/10k
Euthydemus 5 · 4.02/10k
Protagoras 5 · 2.81/10k
Laches 2 · 2.61/10k
Menexenus 1 · 2.08/10k

Densest 12 of 31 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

μᾰθητ-ής · mathēt-ēs — LSJ

learner, pupil, pupils, student, student, apprentice

learner, pupil, τῆς Ἑλλάδος Hdt. 4.77, Mosch. 3.95, etc.; of dancing, SIG 1094.6 (Eleusis, iv B. C.): freq. in Att. of the pupils of philosophers and rhetoricians, οὐ θέμις πλὴν τοῖς μ. λέγειν Ar. Nu. 140; οἱ Πρωταγόρου μ. Pl. Prt. 315a, al.; ἐμοὺς μαθητάς Id. Ap. 33a: c. gen. rei, τούτου τοῦ μαθήματος μ. a student of it, Id. R. 618c; μ. ἰατρικῆς a student of medicine, ib. 599c; μ. περί τινος Id. La. 186e; apprentice, POxy. 725.15 (ii A. D.).

In the wild

μαθητής · mathētēs Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 7
μαθητήςʼ · mathētēsʼ Aristotle, Metaphysics book 1 (DIORISIS sentence 155)
μαθητὴς · mathētēs Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8604)
Μαθητὰς · Mathētas Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8689)
μαθητὰς · mathētas Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8577)
μαθητῶν · mathētōn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.10 (DIORISIS sentence 1901)

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Where it came from

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