πάνῠ (panu)

Where it lives

Euthydemus 62 · 49.81/10k
Cratylus 83 · 46.42/10k
Meno 44 · 44.96/10k
Charmides 36 · 43.35/10k
Euthyphro 22 · 42.54/10k
Lysis 28 · 40.29/10k
Laches 28 · 36.5/10k
Parmenides 55 · 36.29/10k
Economics 64 · 35.97/10k
Hippias Major 30 · 35.54/10k
Theages 12 · 34.54/10k
Lovers 8 · 33.46/10k

Densest 12 of 116 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. πάνυ · pany — Beekes

πάνυ 1c. nak [adv.] ‘enough, well’ (Men,, Diph,, Herod.). *ETYM Probably from » πήγνυμι, παγῆναι, with adverbial -s like in » ἅπαξ. — [Beekes, s.v. πάνυ, p. 1201]

2. Πάνυ · Pany — Chantraine

Πάνυ (Xenoph., ion.-att., surtout en prose) «tout à fait » avec où πάνυ « pas du tout »; 10 est mal expliqué et on l'a rapproché de lu de οὗτος. Bibliographie chez Frisk, avec en dernier lieu Thesleff, 0. 6. 57 ἢ. 1, un rapprochement particulièrement invraisemblable avec εὖ. Le grec emploie encore πάνυ, πάντως, πάντοτε, elc., mais cette famille de mots a été largement concurrencée par ὅλος, ὅλοι, ete., cf, s.u. … — [Chantraine, s.v. Πάνυ, p. 877]

3. πάνῠ · pany — LSJ

altogether

altogether, first in Xenoph. 1.18, then in Trag. and Att., mostly in Prose:

1 perfectly, very, exceedingly, very, very, very, very great, ever so

with Verbs, A. Ch. 861 (anap.), Pl. Cra. 386c, Euthd. 272d, etc.; π. μανθάνω perfectly, Ar. Ra. 65, 195; ὡς π. εἰδῆτε X. An. 6.1.31: with Adjs., very, exceedingly, π. πολλοί, ὀλίγοι, μικρός, etc., very many or few, very small, A. Ag. 1456 (anap.), Pl. Ap. 25b, Arist. HA 542a5; π. ταρφύς A. Pers. 926 (anap.); π. πλούσιοι Lys. 19.15. etc.: freq. in opposed clauses, οὐ πονηρός, ἀλλὰ καὶ π. χρηστός D. 21.83; οὐκ ὀρθῶς, οὐδὲ δικαίως, ἀλλὰ καὶ π. αἰσχρῶς ibid.: after the Adj., ὀλίγοι π., σπάνιος π., X

2 actually

strengthd., καὶ πάνυ Id. 2.11, X. Mem. 1.3.13, Pl. Ap. 17c, Euthd. 276d, Cra. 400c; δοκεῖ μοι . . καὶ π. οὐδὲ εἶναι ἡ ἐπίκλησις αὕτη I believe this name actually did not exist, Th. 1.3.

3 quite, quite, quite, at all, very, at all, hardly

οὐ πάνυ not quite, οὐ π. τι μανθάνω Pl. Euthd. 286e, cf. Phd. 63a, Prt. 331e, X. An. 6.1.26, etc.; ἡ οὐσία οὐδὲ τριῶν ταλάντων π. τι ἦν not quite so much . . , D. 59.7; οὐ π. εὐδαιμονικὸς . . , ἔτι δʼ ἴσως ἧττον Arist. EN 1099b3: sts. with litotes, not quite, implying ‘not at all’, ταῦτα νεκρῷ μὲν οἷόν τε ποιεῖν, ζῶντι δὲ οὐ π. Hp. Art. 46; εὐφόρως δὲ οὐ π. ἔχει it is not very (or not at all) easy, ib. 77; οὐ π. μοίρας εὐδαιμονίσαι πρώτης hardly to be congratulated . . , S. OC 144 (anap.); οὐ π.

4 by all means, no doubt, very well, no I thank you

in affirmative answers, by all means, no doubt, Ar. Pl. 393: mostly with a Particle added, πάνυ γε Pl. Alc. 1.107e, etc.; καὶ πάνυ γε Id. Chrm. 154e; π. γε, ἀλλά . . very well, but . . , D. 21.89; πάνυ μὲν οὖν Ar. Pl. 97, Pl. Euthphr. 13d, al.; πάνυ καλῶς no I thank you, Ar. Ra. 512.

II real, very, excellent, famous

ὁ πάνυ the real, the very (τοῦ π. Διός Luc. Icar. 2): hence, the excellent, the famous, οἱ π. τῶν στρατιωτῶν Th. 8.1, D.C. Fr. 70.6; ὁ π. Περικλῆς X. Mem. 3.5.1; οἱ π. ἐπʼ ἀξιώματος IG 12(7).407.14 (Amorgos); οἱ π. alone, prob. in Th. 8.89 (omitting στρατηγῶν) ; ἡ π. Luc. Vit.Auct. 22.

In the wild

πάνυ · pany Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1455–1457
πάνυ · pany Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 859–865
πάνυ · pany Aeschylus, Persians 924–927
πάνυ · pany Aristophanes, Acharnians 1 (DIORISIS sentence 276)
πάνυ · pany Aristophanes, Acharnians (DIORISIS sentence 1)
πάνυ · pany Aristophanes, Acharnians (DIORISIS sentence 285)

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Where it came from

Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. πάνῠ (scan p. 1201; entry #4810).
Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. πάνῠ (scan p. 1443; entry #4488).

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