1. μισθός · misthos — Beekes
The corpus record
μισθός
misthos
hire, pay, wages, reward, daily wages
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Where it lives
- 2 John 1 · 41.32/10k
- Oeconomica II 12 · 25.52/10k
- Apollodorus Against Polycles 11 · 24.01/10k
- Jude 1 · 22.47/10k
- On The Trierarchic Crown 3 · 22.3/10k
- Economics 13 · 20.97/10k
- 2 Peter 2 · 18.47/10k
- Tobias (cod. Vat. et Alex.) 7 · 13.33/10k
- First Philippic 4 · 12.18/10k
- Aggaeus 1 · 10.99/10k
- Acharnians 6 · 8.45/10k
- Zacharias 4 · 8.29/10k
Densest 12 of 128 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. μισθός · misthos — Chantraine
3. μισθός · misthos — Chantraine
4. μισθός · misthos — LSJ
hire, μισθῷ ἔπι ῥητῷ for fixed wages, Il. 21.445; μισθοῖο τέλος the end of our hired service, ib. 450; μισθὸς . . εἰρημένος ἄρκιος ἔστω Hes. Op. 370; θητεύειν ἐπὶ μισθῷ παρά τινι Hdt. 8.137, cf. 5.65; πείθειν ἐπὶ μ. Id. 8.4; μισθοῦ ἕνεκα ὑπηρετεῖν X. An. 2.5.14: gen. μισθοῦ for hire, S. Tr. 560, Th. 4.124, 7.25, D. 19.94; μ. στρατεύεσθαι Plb. 3.109.6; μισθὸν δοῦναι, διδόναι, πορίζειν, E. Andr. 609, HF 19, Ar. Eq. 1019; ὡς ἐς ἑξήκοντα ναῦς μηνὸς μισθόν as a monthʼs pay, Th. 6.8; μισθοὺς μεγάλους
esp. at Athens, pay, allowance for public service, μ. δικαστικός Sch. Ar. V. 299; μ. ἐκκλησιαστικός Luc. Dem.Enc. 25; ὁ τῆς πρυτανείας μ. pay received during the prytany, Aeschin. 1.123.
physicianʼs fee, μ. ἄρνυσθαι Arist. Pol. 1287a36.
generally, recompense, reward, Il. 10.304, etc.; ἀρετῆς μ. Pl. R. 363d, cf. Ev.Matt. 5.12, etc.
in bad sense, requital, A. Ag. 1261, S. Ant. 221; μ. ἀνδρὶ δυσσεβεῖ E. Hipp. 1050. (Cf. Avest. mīˇžda-, Goth. mizdō, OSlav. mǐzda ‘pay’, OE. meord, méd ‘meed’.)
In the wild
- μισθὸν · misthon Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1260–1263
- μισθὸν · misthon Aristophanes, Acharnians 65 (DIORISIS sentence 48)
- μισθοῦ · misthou Aristophanes, Acharnians *dikaio/polos (DIORISIS sentence 417)
- μισθόν · misthon Aristophanes, Acharnians (DIORISIS sentence 114)
- μισθὸν · misthon Aristophanes, Acharnians (DIORISIS sentence 129)
- μισθοῦ · misthou Aristophanes, Acharnians (DIORISIS sentence 136)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. μισθός (scan p. 1008; entry #4114).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. μισθός (scan p. 722; entry #5337).
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