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πόλεμος

polemos

battle, war

Figures and citations on this page are drawn from the audited corpus; none are written from memory.

Distribution

Densest 12 of 191 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

Senses

1. πόλεμος · polemos — Beekes

battle, war

2. πόλεμος · polemos — Frisk

Kampf, Krieg

3. πόλεμος · polemos — Frisk

Zum Wechsel z-: zr- neue Hypothese von Pisani Paideia 22 (1967) 251

4. πόλεμος · polemos — LSJ

war, battle, fight, single combat

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Deep etymology

Authority pointers, pending review

These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.

  • Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) scan pp. 1269-1270; entry #5087 Review: Under source audit
  • Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch scan pp. 1546-1547; entry #4750 Review: Under source audit

The authorities' own wording is withheld pending review. Each source's identity, locator, and review status are cited above.

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