1. σειρά · seira — Beekes
The corpus record
σειρά
seira
cord, rope, snare, lasso
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Where it lives
- Proverbia 1 · 0.9/10k
- Judices (cod. Al.) 1 · 0.68/10k
- Theaetetus 1 · 0.44/10k
- Iliad 3 · 0.27/10k
- Odyssey 2 · 0.23/10k
- Histories 2 · 0.11/10k
What it meant
2. σειρά · seira — Chantraine
3. σειρά · seira — Frisk
4. σειρά · seira — Frisk
5. σειρά · seira — LSJ
cord, rope, σειράς τʼ εὐπλέκτους Il. 23.115; σειρὴν δὲ πλεκτήν Od. 22.175; σ. χρυσείη cord of gold, Il. 8.19, cf. Pl. Tht. 153c: metaph., σειραῖς . . ἁμαρτιῶν σφίγγεται LXX Pr. 5.22; σειραὶ ζόφου v.l. in 2 Ep.Pet. 2.4: v. also σαύρα IV.
trace (cf. σειραφόρος), Poll. 1.141.
cord or line with a noose, lasso, used by the Sagartians and Sarmatians, Hdt. 7.85, Paus. 1.21.5: hence the Parthians are called σειραφόροι, Suid.
a bandage, Gal. 18(1).777; σ. μονομερής, διμερής, κτλ. Sor. Fasc. 23, 24, al.
ἡ σ. τοῦ βίρρου,= cimussatio (prob. edge, border), Dosith. p.435K.
metaph. of an animalʼs tail, Nic. Th. 119, 385.
σειραὶ τῆς κεφαλῆς locks of hair, LXX Jd. 16.13; σ. τριχῶν Poll. 2.30.
metaph., line, lineage, Tz.ad Lyc. 481, Sch. Il. 1.176.
series, Dam. Pr. 45, 95.
pl., a disease of horses, Hippiatr. 52.
the front part of the perineum, Aët. 6.34.
In the wild
- σειρῇσι · seirēisi Herodotus, Histories 7.85.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7560)
- σειρὰς · seiras Herodotus, Histories 7.85.2 (DIORISIS sentence 7563)
- σειράς · seiras Iliad 23.115
- σειρὴν · seirēn Iliad 8.19
- σειρὴν · seirēn Iliad 8.25
- σειρὴν · seirēn Odyssey 22.175
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. σειρά (scan p. 1367; entry #5453). Root candidates: *twerH-, *tuerH-.
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. σειρά (scan p. 1013; entry #7146).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. σειρά (scan p. 1659; entry #5091).
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