1. σμάραγδος · smaragdos — Beekes
The corpus record
σμάραγδος
smaragdos
emerald
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Where it lives
- Exodus 6 · 2.53/10k
- Tobias (cod. Vat. et Alex.) 1 · 1.9/10k
- Judith 1 · 1.14/10k
- Revelation 1 · 1.01/10k
- Meditations 2 · 0.69/10k
- Siracides 1 · 0.54/10k
- Phaedo 1 · 0.46/10k
- Ezechiel 1 · 0.35/10k
- Histories 2 · 0.11/10k
What it meant
2. σμάραγδος · smaragdos — Chantraine
3. σμάραγδος · smaragdos — Frisk
4. σμάραγδος · smaragdos — LSJ
name of several green stones, including the emerald, Hdt. 2.44, 3.41, Pl. Phd. 110d, Thphr. Lap. 23, al., LXX Ex. 28.9, al., Str. l.c., 17.1.45, Plin. HN 37.62, al., Hld. 2.30, Olymp.Hist. p.466 D., PMag.Lond. 46.239; also μάραγδος, Men. 373, Com. in PSI 2.143.3, Orph. l.c., Nonn. D. 5.178, 18.80; σφραγὶς μαράγδου IG ΙΙ(2).161 B 44 (Delos, iii B.C.), 199 B 59 (ibid.), but σφραγὶς σμαράγδου 203 B 87 (ibid., iii B.C.); ζμάραγδος implied in Luc. Jud.Voc. 9.
Σμάραγδος, ἡ, name of the emerald mines in Egypt, ἀρχιμεταλλάρχου τῆς Ζμαράγδου Proc.Soc.Bibl. Arch. 31 (1909). 323 (i A.D.); μεταλλάρχη (gen. sg.) Ζμαράκτου OGI 660.2 (Egypt, i A.D.); also Σμάραγδος ὄρος Ptol. Geog. 4.5.8.
In the wild
- σμαράγδου · smaragdou Herodotus, Histories 2.44.2 (DIORISIS sentence 1859)
- σμαράγδου · smaragdou Herodotus, Histories 3.41.1 (DIORISIS sentence 3178)
- σμάραγδον · smaragdon Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 7.15.1 (DIORISIS sentence 982)
- σμάραγδος · smaragdos Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 7.15.1 (DIORISIS sentence 981)
- σμάραγδος · smaragdos New Testament, Revelation 21.19 (DIORISIS sentence 442)
- σμαράγδους · smaragdous Plato, Phaedo 110 (DIORISIS sentence 1137)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. σμάραγδος (scan pp. 1416-1417; entry #5649).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. σμάραγδος (scan p. 1046; entry #7421).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. σμάραγδος (scan p. 1719; entry #5256).
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