The corpus record

θᾶκος

thakos · ὁ

seat, chair

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Where it lives

Hiero 3 · 5.03/10k
Works and Days 2 · 3.47/10k
Prometheus Bound 2 · 3.4/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 2 · 2.24/10k
Constitution of the Lacedaemonians 1 · 2.06/10k
Helen 2 · 2.04/10k
Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k
Hecuba 1 · 1.4/10k
Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

seat, chair, seats

seat, chair, Νυμφέων καλοὶ χοροὶ ἠδὲ θόωκοι Od. 12.318; θεῶν δʼ ἐξίκετο θώκους Il. 8.439; θῶκοι ἀμπαυστήριοι seats for resting, Hdt. 1.181, cf. 9.94; κραιπνόσυτος θᾶκος, of the winged car of the Oceanids, A. Pr. 282 (anap.); θᾶκος Διός, of Dodona, ib. 831; σεμνοὶ θ., of the palace, Id. Ag. 519; εἰς παλαιὸν θᾶκον ὀρνιθοσκόπον ἵζων, of Teiresias, S. Ant. 999; νεκροῖσι γείτονας θάκους ἔχων E. HF 1097; θάκους θάσσειν Id. Tr. 138 (anap.); τῶν θ. τοῖς πρεσβυτέροις ὑπανίστασθαι Ar. Nu. 993; ἐκαθήμεθα ἐ

2 chair of office

chair of office, τὸν θᾶκον τὸν ἐμὸν παράδος Σοφοκλεῖ τηρεῖν Ar. Ra. 1515.

3 privy

privy, Hp. Epid. 7.47, 84 (in form θῶκος), Thphr. Char. 14.5, Mnesith. ap. Orib. 8.38.11.

II sitting in council, a council, council

in Hom., sitting in council, a council, like βουλή, οὔτε . . ἀγορὴ γένετʼ οὔτε θόωκος Od. 2.26; ἐς θῶκον πρόμολον δήμοιό τε φῆμιν 15.468; θῶκόνδε καθίζανον 5.3; ἐν θώκῳ κατήμενος sitting in council, Hdt. 6.63. (Cf. θάβακος, θάσσω.)

In the wild

θᾶκοι · thakoi Aeschylus, Agamemnon 518–521
θᾶκον · thakon Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 281–285
θᾶκός · thakos Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 829–834
θᾶκον · thakon Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 8.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7154)
θάκους · thakous Euripides, Bacchae 346–350
θάκους · thakous Euripides, Hecuba *polumh/stwr (DIORISIS sentence 653)

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Where it came from

Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. θᾶκος (scan p. 576; entry #2508).
Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. θᾶκος (scan p. 433; entry #3060).

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