The corpus record
Νίκη
nike
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Where it lives
- Ion 2 · 2.19/10k
- Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
- Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
- Lysistrata 1 · 1.26/10k
- Athenian Constitution 2 · 1.23/10k
- Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k
- Philoctetes 1 · 1.14/10k
- Knights 1 · 1.13/10k
- Phoenissae 1 · 1.04/10k
- Orestes 1 · 1.02/10k
- Birds 1 · 0.94/10k
- Against Timocrates 1 · 0.69/10k
Densest 12 of 14 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
- Νίκη · Nikē Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 468)
- Νίκην · Nikēn Aristophanes, Knights (DIORISIS sentence 436)
- Νίκη · Nikē Aristophanes, Lysistrata 317 (DIORISIS sentence 243)
- Νίκας · Nikas Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..47 (DIORISIS sentence 554)
- Νικῶν · Nikōn Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..49 (DIORISIS sentence 587)
- Νίκης · Nikēs Demosthenes, Against Timocrates 121 (DIORISIS sentence 418)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. Νίκη (scan pp. 1072-1073; entry #4352). Root candidates: *ni-.
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Νίκη (scan pp. 771-772; entry #5664).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Νίκη (scan pp. 1292-1293; entry #4106).
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