The corpus record

νησιώτ-ης

nesiotes · ὁ

islander, swimmer, insular

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Where it lives

On Halonnesus 1 · 4.11/10k
Ways and Means 1 · 2.62/10k
Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k
Histories 25 · 1.36/10k
History 20 · 1.34/10k
Peace 1 · 1.26/10k
Panegyricus 1 · 0.93/10k
On the Crown 1 · 0.51/10k
Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k

What it meant

νησιώτ-ης · nēsiōt-ēs — LSJ

islander

islander, Pi. P. 10.47, Hdt. 1.27, 143, Ar. Pax 298, Th. 5.97, etc.

2 swimmer

metaph., of a swimmer, Tim. Pers. 44.

II insular, insular, island

as Adj., insular, λαὸς νασιώτας Pi. P. 9.55; ν. βίος E. Heracl. 84; νησιώτιδες πόλεις insular cities, Hdt. 7.22; νησιῶτις πέτρα an island rock, A. Pers. 390; ἑστία S. Tr. 658 (lyr.): also with a neut. Subst., νησιώτῃ μειρακίῳ Luc. Dom. 3.

epith. of Apollo in Locris, BCH 46.446; of Dionysus, Ath.Mitt. 29.169 (Pergam.).

In the wild

νησιώτιδος · nēsiōtidos Aeschylus, Persians 386–390
νησιῶται · nēsiōtai Aristophanes, Peace (DIORISIS sentence 236)
νησιώτας · nēsiōtas Demosthenes, On Halonnesus 14 (DIORISIS sentence 29)
νησιώτας · nēsiōtas Demosthenes, On the Crown 234 (DIORISIS sentence 677)
νησιώτην · nēsiōtēn Euripides, Rhesus 1 (DIORISIS sentence 445)
νησιώτῃσι · nēsiōtēisi Herodotus, Histories 1.143.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1041)

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Where it came from

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