1. ταῦ · tau — Beekes
ταῦ (n.indecl.] name ofa letter (Hp., Pl, Att. inscr. 1V*). « *ETYM From Hebr. taw. Cf. Schwyzer: 140. — [Beekes, s.v. ταῦ, p. 1506]
The corpus record
ταῦ
tau
(n
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Where it lives
- Cratylus 4 · 2.24/10k
- Theaetetus 1 · 0.44/10k
What it meant
2. ταῦ · tau — Chantraine
ταῦ : n. indéclinable, dix-neuvième lettre de l'alphabet (Hp., PL, inser. att. du 1ve 8.). Et.: Issu du sémitique τὸ hébr. fdw, cf. Schwyzer, Gr. Gr. 1, 140, Lejeune, Phonétique historique ὃ 4, ἢ. ὦ. — [Chantraine, s.v. ταῦ, p. 1115]
3. ταῦ · tau — Frisk
ταῦ n. indekl. Buchstabenname (Hp., Pl., att. Inschr. ΤΥ ὃ u.a.) aus dem Semit., = hebr. täw. Vgl. Schwyzer 140. — [Frisk, s.v. ταῦ, p. 1832]
4. ταῦ · tau — LSJ
In the wild
- ταῦ · tau Plato, Cratylus 393 (DIORISIS sentence 305)
- ταῦ · tau Plato, Cratylus 394 (DIORISIS sentence 314)
- ταῦ · tau Plato, Cratylus 414 (DIORISIS sentence 794)
- ταῦ · tau Plato, Cratylus 427 (DIORISIS sentence 1091)
- ταῦ · tau Plato, Theaetetus 208
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.