1. περιστερά · peristera — Beekes
pigeon
The corpus record
περιστερ-ά
peristera
pigeon
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Distribution
- Canticum 8 · 41.13/10k
- Nahum 1 · 10.83/10k
- Sophonias 1 · 8.45/10k
- Osee 2 · 5.31/10k
- Leviticus 9 · 4.81/10k
- Birds 3 · 2.82/10k
- Odae 1 · 2.46/10k
- Genesis 6 · 2/10k
- John 3 · 1.96/10k
- Mark 2 · 1.82/10k
- Matthew 3 · 1.67/10k
- Theaetetus 3 · 1.33/10k
Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
Senses
2. περιστερά · peristera — Chantraine
Σ ἵν «pigeon commun », distingué de πέλεια « pigeon sauvage », de φάττα et de τρ
3. Περιστέρα · Peristera — Chantraine
est un anthroponyme féminin, ef
4. περιστερά · peristera — Frisk
Taube
5. περιστερ-ά · perister-a — LSJ
common pigeon
Attestations
- περιστεράς · peristeras Herodotus, Histories 1.138.2 (DIORISIS sentence 1010)
- περιστεράς · peristeras Xenophon, Anabasis 1.4.9 (DIORISIS sentence 245)
- περιστερὰς · peristeras Plato, Theaetetus 197
- περιστερῶν · peristerōn Plato, Theaetetus 198
- περιστερᾶς · peristeras Plato, Theaetetus 199
- περιστερᾶς · peristeras Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 9.11 (DIORISIS sentence 8357)
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