1. τέρας · teras — Beekes
The corpus record
τέρας
teras
sign, emblem; wonder, monster
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Where it lives
- 2 Thessalonians 1 · 12.39/10k
- Joel 1 · 6.49/10k
- Sapientia Salomonis 4 · 5.79/10k
- Acts 10 · 5.55/10k
- Prometheus Bound 3 · 5.1/10k
- Deuteronomium 10 · 4.47/10k
- Baruch 1 · 3.96/10k
- Phoenissae 3 · 3.11/10k
- Trachiniae 2 · 2.75/10k
- Helen 1 · 2.68/10k
- Exodus 6 · 2.53/10k
- Peace 2 · 2.51/10k
Densest 12 of 58 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. τέρας · teras — Chantraine
3. τέρας · teras — Chantraine
4. τέρας · teras — Frisk
5. τέρας · teras — LSJ
sign, wonder, marvel, portent, ἡμῖν μὲν τόδʼ ἔφηνε τ. Ζεύς Il. 2.324; ᾐτέομεν δὲ θεὸν φῆναι τ. Od. 3.173; τοῖσιν . . θεοὶ τέραα προὔφαινον 12.394; τέρας ἧκε Κρόνου πάϊς 21.415; Ζεὺς δʼ Ἔριδα προΐαλλε . . , πολέμοιοτ. μετὰ χερσὶν ἔχουσαν a sign of coming battle, Il. 11.4; esp. of signs in heaven, ἀστέρα ἧκε Κρόνου πάϊς . . , ναύτῃσι τ. 4.76; ἴρισσιν ἐοικότες, ἅς τε Κρονίων ἐν νέφεϊ στήριξε τ. μερόπων ἀνθρώπων 11.28, cf. 17.548; and with pass. Verbs, τ. φανήτω Od. 20.101:—so always when the first
in concrete sense, monster, Διὸς τ. αἰγιόχοιο, of the Gorgon’s head, Il. 5.742; of a serpent, 12.209, h.Ap. 302; δάϊον τ., of Typhoeus, A. Pr. 354; ἀπρόσμαχον τ., of Cerberus, S. Tr. 1098; οὔρειον τ., of the Sphinx, E. Ph. 806 (lyr.); ταῦρον, ἄγριον τ. Id. Hipp. 1214, cf. 1247; ὅλον τ. ὀπτήσας . . βασιλεῖ παρέθηκε κάμηλον Antiph. 172.7 (anap.), cf. Epicr. 3.13; used by Cicero of Caesar, Att. 8.9.4.
monstrous birth, monstrosity, Pl. Cra. 393b, 394a, Aeschin. 3.111, Arist. GA 769b30, 773a3, Vett.Val. 341.13; ὡς ἔθρεψεν ἔκπαγλον τ. A. Ch. 548.
in colloquial language, τέρας λέγεις καὶ θαυμαστόν Pl. Hp.Ma. 283c, cf. Tht. 163d; τέρας λέγεις, εἰ . . Id. Men. 91d; ‘a marvel’ of a cup, Theoc. 1.56: pl., of incredible statements, Phld. Mus. p.74 K.
In the wild
- τέρας · teras Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 543–548
- τέρας · teras Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 353–355
- τέρας · teras Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 829–834
- τέρας · teras Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 920–921
- τέρας · teras Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 570
- τέρας · teras Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 244)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. τέρας (scan pp. 1518-1519; entry #6014). Root candidates: *ker-.
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. τέρας (scan p. 1125; entry #7927).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. τέρας (scan p. 1850; entry #5603).
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