The corpus record

σίνος

sinos · τό

hurt, lesion

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Where it lives

Letter 4 1 · 12.15/10k
Agamemnon 3 · 3.7/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

σίνος · sinos — LSJ

hurt, lesion, mischief, injury, blemish

hurt, lesion, in pl., Hp. Fract. 10, Acut. 54, al.: generally, mischief, injury, Hdt. 8.65; blemish, PGnom. 205 (ii A.D.).

II mischief, bane, plague, the mischief, ruin, pest

of things, mischief, bane, plague, used by A. alone of Trag., πρέπει σ. the mischief is revealed, Ag. 389 (lyr.); σ. ἐσθημάτων ruin to them, ib. 561; σ. πολυκτόνον, of Helen, ib. 734 (lyr.); pest, of the ἀστήρ (star-fish), Arist. HA 548a9; σ. πρὸς εὐκαρπίαν Thphr. CP 2.7.5.—Ion. word, very rare in Att. Prose, Isoc. Ep. 4.11. [σῐ, A. Il.cc., Nic. Th. 1, 653; but σῑνεα Id. Al. 231.]

In the wild

σίνος · sinos Aeschylus, Agamemnon 387–389
σίνος · sinos Aeschylus, Agamemnon 732–734
σίνος · sinos Aeschylus, Agamemnon 560–562
σίνος · sinos Herodotus, Histories 8.65.2 (DIORISIS sentence 8793)
σίνη · sinē Isocrates, Letter 4 4 (DIORISIS sentence 20)

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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