The corpus record

μνηστ-ήρ

mnester · ὁ

wooer, suitor

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Where it lives

Odyssey 232 · 26.68/10k
Ion 2 · 4.99/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 4 · 4.48/10k
Lovers 1 · 4.18/10k
Trachiniae 2 · 2.75/10k
Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
Electra 1 · 1.32/10k
Helen 1 · 1.02/10k
Ars Poetica 1 · 0.99/10k
Alcibiades 1 1 · 0.98/10k
Histories 7 · 0.38/10k
Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

μνηστ-ήρ · mnēst-ēr — LSJ

wooer, suitor

wooer, suitor, freq. in Od. of the suitors of Penelope, 1.91, al., cf. Pi. P. 9.106, Th. 1.9, S. Tr. 9, 15: c. gen., παιδὸς τῆς ἐμῆς μ. Hdt. 6.130; γάμων μ. A. Pr. 740: metaph., μ. ἀγώνων, πολέμου, στεφάνων, Pi. P. 12.24, N. 1.16, Fr. 19; καλοῖς ἔργοις ὧν μνηστῆρα τὸν κίνδυνον εἶναι J. AJ 17.6.2.

Μναστήρ, ὁ, a month at Messene, IG 5(1).1447 (iii/ii B. C.).

In the wild

μνηστῆρος · mnēstēros Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 739
μνηστήρων · mnēstērōn Aristotle, Ars Poetica 17
μνηστῆρσι · mnēstērsi Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.8 (DIORISIS sentence 1633)
μνηστῆρες · mnēstēres Euripides, Electra *au)tourgo/s (DIORISIS sentence 7)
μνηστήρ · mnēstēr Euripides, Helen (DIORISIS sentence 62)
μνηστήρων · mnēstērōn Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis *)agame/mnwn (DIORISIS sentence 8)

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Where it came from

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