The corpus record

νεᾶνις

neanis · ἡ

girl, maiden

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Where it lives

Canticum 2 · 10.28/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 6 · 6.72/10k
Ruth 1 · 5.21/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 4 · 4.82/10k
Judices (cod. Al.) 7 · 4.79/10k
Bacchae 3 · 3.99/10k
Machabaeourum III 2 · 3.98/10k
Deuteronomium 8 · 3.58/10k
Phoenissae 3 · 3.11/10k
Helen 3 · 3.07/10k
Trojan Women 2 · 2.83/10k
Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k

Densest 12 of 26 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

girl, maiden

girl, maiden, Il. 18.418, Pi. P. 9.31, A. l.c., Eu. 958 (lyr.), S. Ant. 784 (lyr.), E. l.c., al., A.R. 1.843, Lyr. Alex.Adesp. 26; of a young married woman, E. Andr. 192; παρθενικὴ ν. Od. 7.20.

II youthful

as Adj., youthful, χεῖρες, ἧβαι, E. Ba. 745, Ion 477 (lyr.).

2 new

new, βίβλος AP 4.3b75 (Agath.).—Poet. word, but freq. in LXX, Ex. 2.8, al.

In the wild

νεανίδων · neanidōn Aeschylus, Eumenides 956–967
νεάνιδα · neanida Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 703–704
νεάνιδες · neanides Euripides, Bacchae 1079–1080
νεάνισιν · neanisin Euripides, Bacchae 233–238
νεανίδων · neanidōn Euripides, Bacchae 743–745
νεᾶνις · neanis Euripides, Electra (DIORISIS sentence 263)

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Where it came from

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