1. μεστός · mestos — Beekes
The corpus record
μεστ-ός
mestos
full, filled, satiated
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Where it lives
- James 2 · 11.7/10k
- Nahum 1 · 10.83/10k
- 2 Peter 1 · 9.23/10k
- Letter 9 1 · 8.76/10k
- Plutus 7 · 8.68/10k
- On the Murder of Eratosthenes 2 · 8.32/10k
- Letter 2 1 · 7.84/10k
- On the Sacred Disease 3 · 6.54/10k
- On the Peace 5 · 6.32/10k
- Panathenaicus 10 · 6.31/10k
- Against Aristogeiton 2 1 · 5.95/10k
- Funeral Oration 2 · 4.92/10k
Densest 12 of 72 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. μεστός · mestos — Chantraine
3. μεστός · mestos — Frisk
4. μεστ-ός · mest-os — LSJ
full, ἄγγεα Hom. Epigr. 15.5; ἐποίησεν τὴν πόλιν μεστήν Ar. Eq. 814; ἔγχεον μεστήν a full cup, Diph. 20, cf. Alex. 58; μὴ μεστὰς ἀεὶ ἕλκωμεν Antiph. 207.1; of persons, οἶνον πίνεις μ. ὤν Alex. 164, cf. Anaxandr. 15.
c. gen., full of, ἀργυρίου . . ἀρτάβη μεστή Hdt. 1.192; τὸ στόμα . . μεστὸν βδελλέων Id. 2.68; μ. ὕδατος Ar. Nu. 383; ἀλφίτων, οἴνου, ἐλαίου, Id. Pl. 806 sq.; ὄνος . . οἴνου μ. laden with . . , Id. V. 617; ἱμάτιον κηλίδων μ. Thphr. Char. 19.7.
metaph., πάντα μ. ἐλπίδων ἀγαθῶν εἶναι X. HG 3.4.18; μεστοὶ σπουδῆς, ἀταξίας, Id. Smp. 1.13, Mem. 3.5.6; πολλῆς ἀνοίας μ. Isoc. 5.45; σοφία μ. ἐλέους καὶ καρπῶν ἀγαθῶν Ep.Jac. 3.17; φόβων καὶ ἐρώτων μ. Pl. R. 579b; ἀπάτης μ. Id. Phd. 83a, etc.; ἐλευθερίας Id. R. 563d; μ. θεάτρου full of theatric pride, i. e. spoilt by applause, Id. Smp. 194b; ὑπερηφανίας καὶ ὑπεροψίας μ. v.l. in D. 21.195.
sated with, c. gen., E. IT 804; μ. εἰρήνης σαπρᾶς Ar. Pax 554; τινος (of a person) Plu. Laud. 2.541d: c. part., μ. ἦ θυμούμενος, i. e. had had my fill of anger, S. OC 768; μ. ἐγένετο ἀγανακτῶν D. 48.28; μεστοὶ τοῦ συνεχῶς λέγοντος Id. 18.308; also μ. τὸν θυμόν Plu. Alex. 13.
In the wild
- μεστὰς · mestas Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 332)
- μεστὴν · mestēn Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae (DIORISIS sentence 675)
- μεστόν · meston Aristophanes, Frogs 1021
- μεστὸν · meston Aristophanes, Frogs 1346
- μεστὴν · mestēn Aristophanes, Knights (DIORISIS sentence 588)
- μεστὰ · mesta Aristophanes, Peace (DIORISIS sentence 420)
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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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