1. τητάομαι · tētaomai — Beekes
The corpus record
τητάομαι
tetaomai
to lack, be in want, be robbed
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Where it lives
- Electra 2 · 2.3/10k
- Oedipus at Colonus 2 · 1.93/10k
- Works and Days 1 · 1.73/10k
- Hecuba 1 · 1.4/10k
- Electra 1 · 1.32/10k
- Philoctetes 1 · 1.14/10k
- Helen 1 · 1.02/10k
- Orestes 1 · 1.02/10k
- Nicomachean Ethics 1 · 0.18/10k
- Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k
- Laws 1 · 0.1/10k
What it meant
2. τητάομαι · tētaomai — Chantraine
3. τητάομαι · tētaomai — Frisk
4. τητάομαι · tētaomai — LSJ
to be in want, σὺ δὲ τητᾷ Hes. Op. 408; τὸ τητᾶσθαι privation, S. El. 265; τητῶνται shd. be read for ἡττῶνται (or ἀπατῶνται) in X. Cyr. 8.4.33.
elsewh. always c. gen., to be in want of, be deprived or bereft of, φίλων τατώμενος Pi. N. 10.78, cf. E. Hel. 274; [ἀνδρός], πατρός, νυμφίων, S. OC 1618, E. Heracl. 24, Hec. 324; τῶν ἐμῶν τ. πρὸς τοῦ κακίστου S. Ph. 383; ἀδέρκτων ὀμμάτων Id. OC 1200; Ἑλλάδος τητώμενοι E. Heracl. 31; χορῶν τ. Id. El. 310; χαρμάτων τητώμεθα Id. Or. 1084; ῥυθμοῦ τε καὶ ἁρμονίας Pl. Lg. 810b; εὐγενείας Arist. EN 1099b2; ἔργου Jul. Or. 4.134c.
In the wild
- τητώμενοι · tētōmenoi Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1099b (DIORISIS sentence 236)
- τητωμένη · tētōmenē Euripides, Electra (DIORISIS sentence 171)
- τητώμεναι · tētōmenai Euripides, Hecuba (DIORISIS sentence 148)
- τητωμένη · tētōmenē Euripides, Helen *(ele/nh (DIORISIS sentence 164)
- τητώμεθα · tētōmetha Euripides, Orestes (DIORISIS sentence 734)
- τητᾷ · tētai Works and Days 405–409
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. τητάομαι (scan pp. 1531-1532; entry #6061).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. τητάομαι (scan p. 1134; entry #7994).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. τητάομαι (scan p. 1867; entry #5654).
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