1. τέσσαρες · tessares — Beekes
The corpus record
τέσσαρες
tessares
four
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Where it lives
- Revelation 28 · 28.31/10k
- Against Aphobus 1 12 · 26.44/10k
- Amos 8 · 26/10k
- Paralipomenon I 31 · 23.32/10k
- Against Nausimachus and Xenopeithes 4 · 21.87/10k
- Against Nicomachus 4 · 21.28/10k
- Against Aphobus 2 3 · 19.99/10k
- On The Property Of Eraton 1 · 17.12/10k
- On the Property of Aristophanes 5 · 16.12/10k
- Ezechiel 43 · 14.88/10k
- Against Simon 3 · 13.77/10k
- Susanna (LXX) 1 · 13.09/10k
Densest 12 of 135 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. τέσσαρες · tessares — Chantraine
3. τέσσαρες · tessares — Frisk
4. τέσσαρες · tessares — Frisk
5. τέσσᾰρες · tessares — LSJ
four, Od. 9.335, etc.; διὰ τεττάρων the musical interval of the fourth, Damox. 2.55, etc.; τὰ τέσσαρα the four simple bodies of Empedocles, Plot. 6.2.2; the four kinds of quality or four Aristotelian senses of ποιόν, Id. 6.1.10; the four cardinal principles of Epicurus (cf. τετραφάρμακος), Phld. Herc. 1251.11. (Cf. Skt. catvá̄ras (acc. catúras), Lat. quattuor, Lith. keturì, etc.: I.-E. qṷetṷor-.)
In the wild
- τέσσαρας · tessaras Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 238
- τέτταρα · tettara Aristophanes, Acharnians (DIORISIS sentence 1)
- τέτταρα · tettara Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 802)
- τέτταρα · tettara Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 2.1030 (DIORISIS sentence 853)
- τέτταρα · tettara Aristophanes, Frogs 1400
- τέτταρας · tettaras Aristophanes, Frogs 914–915
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. τέσσαρες (scan pp. 1522-1523; entry #6026).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. τέσσαρες (scan pp. 1127-1128; entry #7947). Root candidates: *kvelf-.
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. τέσσαρες (scan pp. 1855-1856; entry #5619).
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