1. πορφύρα · porphyra — Beekes
purple dye, purple snail, purple clothes
The corpus record
πορφύρ-α
porphura
purple dye, purple snail, purple clothes
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Distribution
- Exodus 22 · 9.29/10k
- Epistula Jeremiae 1 · 7.94/10k
- Canticum 1 · 5.14/10k
- Machabaeorum I 8 · 4.59/10k
- Daniel (LXX) 4 · 3.81/10k
- Agamemnon 2 · 2.47/10k
- Mark 2 · 1.82/10k
- Paralipomenon II 3 · 1.52/10k
- De Sensu et Sensibilibus 1 · 1.28/10k
- Esdras I 1 · 1.22/10k
- Judith 1 · 1.14/10k
- Meditations 3 · 1.03/10k
Densest 12 of 26 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
Senses
2. πορφύρα · porphyra — Chantraine
ion
3. πορφύρα · porphyra — Frisk
iorı
4. πορφύρα · porphyra — Frisk
Myk
5. πορφύρ-α · porphyr-a — LSJ
purple-fish, Murex trunculus
Attestations
- πορφύραν · porphyran Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1123a (DIORISIS sentence 1247)
- πορφύραι · porphyrai Aristotle, De Sensu et Sensibilibus (DIORISIS sentence 146)
- πορφύρα · porphyra Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 4.20.1 (DIORISIS sentence 386)
- πορφύρα · porphyra Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 7.15.1 (DIORISIS sentence 981)
- πορφύρα · porphyra Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 9.36.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1546)
- πορφύρα · porphyra Epictetus, Discourses 1.2 (DIORISIS sentence 141)
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