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παρθένος

parthenos

lacon

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Where it lives

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What it meant

1. παρθένος · parthenos — Chantraine

παρθένος : lacon. mépoevos (Ar. Lys. 1263) « jeune fille, vierge », ete. (II, 22,127, etc., ion.-att., ete.), bien distingué de γυνή, cf. 8. Tr. 148, ἀντὶ παρθένου yuvh, Théoc. 27,65 ; pour Hés. Th. 514 voir l'éd. West; le mot couvre un champ sémantique différent de celui de κόρη qui exprime la jeunesse et peut se dire d’une jeune femme ; les deux mots associés E. Ph. 1730 παρθένου κόρας «la jeune vierge» dit de la … — [Chantraine, s.v. παρθένος, p. 875]

2. παρθένος · parthenos — LSJ

maiden, girl, girls, virgin

maiden, girl, Il. 22.127, etc. ; αἱ ἄθλιαι π. ἐμαί my unhappy girls, S. OT 1462, cf. Ar. Eq. 1302 ; also γυνὴ παρθένος Hes. Th. 514; π. κόρα, of the Sphinx, dub. in E. Ph. 1730 (lyr.); θυγάτηρ π. X. Cyr. 4.6.9 ; of Persephone, E. Hel. 1342 (lyr.), cf. S. Fr. 804; virgin, opp. γυνή, Id. Tr. 148, Theoc. 27.65.

2

of unmarried women who are not virgins, Il. 2.514, Pi. P. 3.34, S. Tr. 1219, Ar. Nu. 530.

3 the Virgin Goddess

Παρθένος, ἡ, the Virgin Goddess, as a title of Athena at Athens, Paus. 5.11.10, 10.34.8 (hence of an Att. coin bearing her head, E. Fr. 675); of Artemis, E. Hipp. 17 ; of the Tauric Iphigenia, Hdt. 4.103 ; of an unnamed goddess, SIG 46.3 (Halic., v B.C.), IG 1(2).108.48, 54 (Neapolis in Thrace); αἱ ἱεραὶ π., of the Vestal Virgins, D.H. 1.69, Plu. Util. 2.89e, etc. ; αἱ Ἑστιάδες π. Id. Cic. 19; simply, αἱ π. D.H. 2.66.

4 Virgo

the constellation Virgo, Eudox. ap. Hipparch. 1.2.5, Arat. 97, etc.

5 pupil

= κόρη III, pupil, X. ap. Longin. 4.4, Aret. SD 1.7.

II maiden, chaste

as Adj., maiden, chaste, παρθένον ψυχὴν ἔχων E. Hipp. 1006, cf. Porph. Marc. 33 ; μίτρη π. Epigr.Gr. 319 : metaph., π. πηγή A. Pers. 613.

III unmarried man

as masc., παρθένος, ὁ, unmarried man, Apoc. 14.4.

IV Samian earth

π. γῆ Samian earth (cf. παρθένιος III), PMag.Berol. 2.57.

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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. παρθένος (scan p. 875; entry #6293).

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