Μοῖρα

Where it lives

• Eumenides 4 · 7.63/10k
• De Mundo 4 · 6.31/10k
• Libation Bearers 3 · 5.58/10k
• Prometheus Bound 3 · 5.1/10k
• Seven Against Thebes 2 · 3.97/10k
• Theogony 2 · 2.9/10k
• Agamemnon 2 · 2.47/10k
• Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
• Epinomis 1 · 1.59/10k
• Thesmophoriazusae 1 · 1.42/10k
• Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
• Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k

Densest 12 of 24 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

This reads as a proper name — a river, a person, a place — held only because the corpus attests it. It stands outside the library's subject, the vocabulary of the soul, so no lexicon entry is recorded.

In the wild

• Μοῖρʼ · Moirʼ Aeschylus, Agamemnon 126–130
• Μοῖρʼ · Moirʼ Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1448–1453
• Μοῖρʼ · Moirʼ Aeschylus, Eumenides 334–338
• Μοῖρά · Moira Aeschylus, Eumenides 1045–1046
• Μοῖραι · Moirai Aeschylus, Eumenides 956–967
• Μοίρας · Moiras Aeschylus, Eumenides 724

6 of 43 attestations shown. Ask for more.

Where it came from

• Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Μοῖρα (scan p. 696; entry #5164).
• Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Μοῖρα (scan p. 1221; entry #3921).

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