τέρψις · terpsis — LSJ
enjoyment, delight
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τέρψις
terpsis · ἡ
enjoyment, delight
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Distribution
- Sophonias 1 · 8.45/10k
- Ajax 4 · 5.09/10k
- To Demonicus 1 · 3.46/10k
- Shield of Heracles 1 · 3.09/10k
- Theogony 2 · 2.9/10k
- Oedipus at Colonus 3 · 2.9/10k
- Trachiniae 2 · 2.75/10k
- Phoenissae 2 · 2.07/10k
- Machabaeourum III 1 · 1.99/10k
- Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
- Sapientia Salomonis 1 · 1.45/10k
- Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k
Densest 12 of 29 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
Senses
Attestations
- τέρψιν · terpsin Theogony 203–206
- τέρψις · terpsis Theogony 915–917
- τέρψιν · terpsin Shield of Heracles 272
- τέρψις · terpsis Plato, Cratylus 419 (DIORISIS sentence 927)
- τέρψιν · terpsin Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1164a (DIORISIS sentence 3095)
- τέρψιος · terpsios Herodotus, Histories 7.39.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7314)
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