1. τέφρα · tephra — Beekes
The corpus record
τέφρα
tephra
147ς *DER τευτλ-ίον (Ar,, Diocl
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Where it lives
- De juventute et senectute, De vita et morte 1 · 5.44/10k
- Tobias (cod. Vat. et Alex.) 2 · 3.81/10k
- De Sensu et Sensibilibus 2 · 2.56/10k
- De Respiratione 1 · 1.65/10k
- Sapientia Salomonis 1 · 1.45/10k
- Lysis 1 · 1.44/10k
- Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
- Iliad 2 · 0.18/10k
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
What it meant
2. τέφρα · tephra — Beekes
3. τέφρα · tephra — Chantraine
4. τέφρᾶ · tephra — Chantraine
5. τέφρᾷ · tephrai — Frisk
6. τέφρ-α · tephr-a — LSJ
ashes, as of the funeral pile, Il. 23.251; νεκταρέῳ δὲ χιτῶνι μέλαινʼ ἀμφίζανε τέφρη 18.25; ὁ ἀὴρ ὁ ἐγκατακλειόμενος ἐν ταῖς θήκαις (coffins) . . διαλύει πάντʼ εἰς τ. Thphr. Ign. 47; τ. πηγνυμένη νιφετὸν [σημαίνει] Id. Sign. 42; κἠπὶ τὴν τέφρην οἰχνεῖ (sc. τὸ πῦρ) Call. in PSI 11.1216.35; καταπάσας τέφραν, ἐμπάσαι τῆς τέφρας, Ar. Nu. 177, Pl. Ly. 210a; δόξαι τινὰ ψάμμον ἢ τ. ἐσθίειν Gal. 6.782; ἐκκρίνασα τὴν οἷον τ. τῶν ὑπεροπτηθέντων χυμῶν Id. 18(2).279; τέφρᾳ τιλθῆναι, prob. lime, Ar. Nu. 1083
In the wild
- τέφρας · tephras Aristotle, De juventute et senectute, De vita et morte (DIORISIS sentence 42)
- τέφρᾳ · tephrai Aristotle, De Respiratione (DIORISIS sentence 93)
- τέφρα · tephra Aristotle, De Sensu et Sensibilibus (DIORISIS sentence 109)
- τέφρας · tephras Aristotle, De Sensu et Sensibilibus (DIORISIS sentence 93)
- τέφρᾳ · tephrai Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 8.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7154)
- τέφρη · tephrē Iliad 18.25
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. τέφρα (scan p. 1526; entry #6037).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. τέφρα (scan p. 1060; entry #7545).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. τέφρα (scan pp. 1860-1861; entry #5634).
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