1. ὄλεθρος · olethros — Beekes
ὄλεθρος [m.] ‘destruction’. >dAA vu. ὀλέκρανον [n.] ‘point of the elbow’. =wAéKpavov. — [Beekes, s.v. ὄλεθρος, p. 1118]
The corpus record
ὄλεθρος
olethros
destruction
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Where it lives
- Abdias 1 · 22.73/10k
- 2 Thessalonians 1 · 12.39/10k
- 1 Thessalonians 1 · 6.88/10k
- 1 Timothy 1 · 6.31/10k
- Trojan Women 4 · 5.65/10k
- Odyssey 49 · 5.64/10k
- For the Megalopolitans 1 · 5.4/10k
- Sapientia Salomonis 3 · 4.35/10k
- Thesmophoriazusae 3 · 4.26/10k
- Against Agoratus 2 · 4.17/10k
- Machabaeourum III 2 · 3.98/10k
- Iphigenia in Tauris 3 · 3.62/10k
Densest 12 of 57 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. ὄλεθρος · olethros — Chantraine
ὄλεθρος, voir ὄλλυμι. ὀλέκρανον, voir ὠλέκρανον. — [Chantraine, s.v. ὄλεθρος, p. 808]
3. ὄλεθρος · olethros — Frisk
ὄλεθρος τη. "Verderben’ 8. ὄλλυμι. ὀλέκρανον n. “Kopf des Ellenbogenknochens’ 8. ὠλέκρανον. 876 ὀλιβρόν--- ὀλίγος — [Frisk, s.v. ὄλεθρος, p. 1347]
4. ὄλεθρ-ος · olethr-os — LSJ
ruin, destruction, death, of death, plague take thee!, destruction
ruin, destruction, death, αἰπὺς ὄ. Il. 11.174, al. ; λυγρὸς ὄ. 10.174, al. ; ὄ. ἀδευκής Od. 4.489 ; οἴκτιστος ὄ. 23.79 ; ἵνα ψυχῆς ὤκιστος ὄ. Il. 22.325 ; ὀλέθρου πείρατα, like τέλος θανάτοιο, the consummation of death, 6.143 ; ὄ., opp. γένεσις, Parm. 8.21, 27 ; οὐκ εἰς ὄλεθρον ; as an imprecation, plague take thee! S. OT 430 ; χρημάτων ὀλέθρῳ by destruction of property. Th. 7.27 ; εἶναι ἐν ὀλέθρῳ Antipho 1.29 ; ἐπʼ ὀλέθρῳ τῶν χρωμένων E. Ph. 534 ; ἐκκλησιάζειν ἐπʼ ὀλέθρῳ Ar. Th. 84 ; οὐκ ἐπὶ δ
II that which causes destruction, pest, plague, pestilent, pest!
that which causes destruction, pest, plague, Hes. Th. 326 ; contemptuously of persons, γεγονὼς κακῶς καὶ ἐὼν ὄ. Hdt. 3.142 ; ὑπὸ γερόντων ὀ. Ar. Lys. 325 ; ὄ. ἄνθρωπος Eup. 376, cf. Men. 533.13 ; ὄ. Μακεδών, of Philip, D. 9.31 ; ὄ. γραμματεύς a pestilent scribe, of Aeschines, Id. 18.127 ; τὸν βάσκανον, τὸν δʼ ὄ. the cheat, the pest! Id. 21.209 ; ἀνθρώπους οὐδʼ ἐλευθέρους ἀλλʼ ὀ. Id. 23.202 ; πολλοὶ ὄ. καὶ μεγάλοι Pl. R. 491b.
III seduction
seduction, Ἑλένης E. IA 1382 (troch.).
In the wild
- ὄλεθρος · olethros Aeschylus, Eumenides 934–937
- ὄλεθρον · olethron Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 859–865
- ὦλεθρε · ōlethre Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 2 (DIORISIS sentence 767)
- ὀλέθρων · olethrōn Aristophanes, Lysistrata 3.321 (DIORISIS sentence 246)
- ὄλεθρον · olethron Aristophanes, Peace (DIORISIS sentence 538)
- ὄλεθρόν · olethron Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae (DIORISIS sentence 336)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. ὄλεθρος (scan p. 1118; entry #4505).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ὄλεθρος (scan p. 808; entry #5856).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ὄλεθρος (scan pp. 1347-1348; entry #4222).
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