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παρειά

pareia

subsiste en grec moderne mais est généralement remplacé par μάγουλος emprunté au

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Where it lives

Ion 2 · 4.99/10k
Antigone 3 · 4.09/10k
Shield of Heracles 1 · 3.09/10k
Hecuba 2 · 2.79/10k
Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k
Odyssey 6 · 0.69/10k
Statesman 1 · 0.59/10k
Iliad 3 · 0.27/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

1. Παρειά · Pareia — Chantraine

Παρειά subsiste en grec moderne mais est généralement remplacé par μάγουλος emprunté au lat. Et.: ll est évident depuis longtemps que le mot est un composé de οὖς avec un vocalisme ὦ, mais le détail phonétique est difficile, cf. Schwyzer, Gr. Gr. 1,258 et 349, Bechtel, Lexilogus 270, Wackernagel, Spr. Uni. 60 n. 1, Adrados, Emerita 18, 1950, 411. Szemerényi, Si. Micenei 3, 1967, 63 sq. part d’un radical * paräwä qui … — [Chantraine, s.v. Παρειά, p. 875]

2. πᾰρειά · pareia — LSJ

cheek

cheek, used by Hom. always in pl. (sg. being supplied by the Ion. παρήϊον), Il. 3.35, al.; of an eagle, Od. 2.153 : also Trag., in pl., S. Ant. 783 (lyr.) : in sg., A. Pr. 401 (lyr.), S. Ant. 1239, E. Tr. 280 (lyr.) : rare in Prose, as Pl. Plt. 270e, X. Cyr. 6.4.3 (pl.).

II cheekpiece

cheekpiece of a helmet, h.Hom. 31.11 (s. v. l.), IG 2(2).1421.124, 1455.11, al.

= τῆς πρῴρας τὰ ἑκατέρωθεν Poll. 1.89.

3 earth-flush, beside the ear

γῆς παρειά earth-flush, = ἀνεμώνη ἡ φοινικῆ, cj. in Ps.-Dsc. 2.176. (Perh. fr. παρά, οὖς, lit. beside the ear.)

In the wild

παρειὰν · pareian Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 400–402
παρειὰν · pareian Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 68–72
παρειάν · pareian Euripides, Hecuba 650 (DIORISIS sentence 328)
παρειὰν · pareian Euripides, Hecuba (DIORISIS sentence 201)
παρειάν · pareian Euripides, Trojan Women (DIORISIS sentence 150)
παρειὰς · pareias Herodotus, Histories 1.134.1 (DIORISIS sentence 985)

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Where it came from

Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. παρειά (scan p. 875; entry #6290).

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