1. μεῖον · meion — Beekes
The corpus record
μείων
meion
small animals (sheep or lambs), which were sacrificed during the Apatouria
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Where it lives
- Apology 2 · 10/10k
- On the Cavalry Commander 5 · 8.69/10k
- Agesilaus 6 · 8.16/10k
- Ways and Means 3 · 7.85/10k
- Hiero 3 · 5.03/10k
- Anabasis 19 · 3.38/10k
- Cyropaedia 26 · 3.3/10k
- Oedipus at Colonus 3 · 2.9/10k
- Fragments 1 · 2.51/10k
- Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
- Constitution of the Lacedaemonians 1 · 2.06/10k
- Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
Densest 12 of 26 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. μείων · meiōn — Beekes
3. μείων · meiōn — Chantraine
4. μείων · meiōn — Chantraine
5. μεῖον · meion — Frisk
6. μείων · meiōn — Frisk
7. μείων · meiōn — Frisk
8. μεῖον · meion — LSJ
9. μεί-ων · mei-ōn — LSJ
—irreg. Comp. of ὀλίγος or μικρός, lesser, less, Pi. O. 1.35, al., A. Ch. 519, B. 1.63, etc.; τὸ μ. κρεισσόνων κρατύνει; A. Supp. 596 (lyr.), cf. Hp. VM 8 (v.l., cf. Erot.), Vict. 1.5, al. (not in other works of Hp.), freq. in X., Cyr. 5.4.48, al., not in good Att. Prose or Com., nor in Hdt.; younger, S. OC 374: neut. μεῖον as Adv., less, μ. ἰσχύσειν Διός A. Pr. 510, cf. Ch. 707: regul. Adv., μειόνως ἔχειν to be of less value, S. OC 104, cf. J. AJ 19.2.2:—also μειότερος, α, ον, A.R. 2.368, Arat.
In the wild
- μεῖον · meion Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 707–708
- μεῖον · meion Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 508–510
- μεῖον · meion Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 352–355
- μεῖον · meion Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 595–596
- μεῖον · meion Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1129b (DIORISIS sentence 1543)
- μείονι · meioni Aristotle, Rhetoric 1
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. μείων (scan p. 974; entry #3987). Root candidates: *meiH-.
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. μείων (scan p. 697; entry #5169). Root candidates: *mei-, *meyyos-.
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. μείων (scan pp. 1169-1170; entry #3792). Root candidates: *meiuo-, *moviuo-.
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