Ψυχή

Where it lives

• Leviticus 3 · 1.6/10k
• Enneads 24 · 1.13/10k
• Luke 1 · 0.52/10k
• Republic 1 · 0.11/10k

What it meant

This reads as a proper name — a river, a person, a place — held only because the corpus attests it. It stands outside the library's subject, the vocabulary of the soul, so no lexicon entry is recorded.

In the wild

• Ψυχή · Psychē New Testament, Luke 12.18 (DIORISIS sentence 665)
• Ψυχαὶ · Psychai Plato, Republic 10.617 (DIORISIS sentence 6329)
• Ψυχὴ · Psychē Plotinus, Enneads 1.6 (DIORISIS sentence 430)
• Ψυχῆι · Psychēi Plotinus, Enneads 1.7 (DIORISIS sentence 476)
• Ψυχῆς · Psychēs Plotinus, Enneads 1.7 (DIORISIS sentence 464)
• Ψυχῆς · Psychēs Plotinus, Enneads 2.1 (DIORISIS sentence 659)

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Where it came from

• Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. Ψυχή (scan p. 1722; entry #6680).
• Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Ψυχή (scan pp. 1314-1315; entry #8937). Root candidates: *bhes-.
• Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Ψυχή (scan p. 2316; entry #8061).

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