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θάλαμος

thalamos · ὁ

an inner room

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Where it lives

  • Odyssey 41 · 4.72/10k
  • Trojan Women 3 · 4.24/10k
  • Ion 3 · 3.28/10k
  • Hecuba 2 · 2.79/10k
  • Antigone 2 · 2.73/10k
  • Iphigenia in Tauris 2 · 2.41/10k
  • Iliad 26 · 2.33/10k
  • Helen 2 · 2.04/10k
  • Machabaeourum III 1 · 1.99/10k
  • Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
  • Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k
  • Suppliants 1 · 1.42/10k

Densest 12 of 25 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

an inner room, chamber, surrounded by other buildings

an inner room or chamber, surrounded by other buildings: freq. in Hom.,

1 womenʼs apartment, inner part of the house

generally, womenʼs apartment, inner part of the house, like μυχός, Il. 3.142, 174, Od. 4.121, etc.: in pl., Il. 18.492; ἐκ τῶν ἀνδρεώνων . . ἐς τοὺς θ. Hdt. 1.34.

2 a special chamber in this part of the house

a special chamber in this part of the house,

a bedroom, bride-chamber, bedroom of an unmarried son

bedroom, esp. of the lady of the house, Il. 3.423, al., Hdt. 1.12, 3.78, Plu. Alc. 23; esp. bride-chamber, Il. 11.227, Pi. P. 2.33 (pl.), S. Tr. 913, E. Hipp. 540 (lyr., pl.); also, bedroom of an unmarried son, Od. 1.425, 19.48.

b store-room

store-room, esp. for valuables, Il. 24.191, Od. 21.8, X. Oec. 9.3, etc.; ὄλβου διοίγων θάλαμον E. Fr. 285.8.

c chamber, room

generally, chamber, room, Od. 23.192, POxy. 1144.2 (i/ii A.D.).

3 house, mansion

house, mansion (not in Hom.), Pi. O. 5.13 (pl.), 6.1; βασιλικοὶ θ. E. Ion 486 (lyr.).

II the grave, realms, folds, pens

metaph., ὁ παγκοίτας θ., of the grave, S. Ant. 804 (anap.); τυμβήρης θ., of the prison of Danae, ib. 947 (lyr.); θάλαμοι ὑπὸ γῆς the realms below, A. Pers. 624; γᾶς θάλαμοι E. HF 807 (lyr.); θ. Περσεφονείας Id. Supp. 1022 (lyr.); θ. Ἀμφιτρίτας, of the sea, S. OT 195 (lyr.); πολυδένδρεσσιν Ὀλύμπου θαλάμοις E. Ba. 561 (lyr., θαλάμαις cj. Barnes); ἀρνῶν θ. folds or pens, Id. Cyc. 57 (lyr.).

III the lowest, darkest part of the ship, the hold

the lowest, darkest part of the ship, the hold, Timae. 114, Poll. 1.87; cf. θαλάμη II.

IV certain mystic shrines, chapels, the innermost shrine

used of certain mystic shrines or chapels, sacred to Apis, Ael. NA 11.10, cf. Plin. HN 8.185; the innermost shrine, Luc. Syr.D. 31.

In the wild

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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. θάλαμος (scan pp. 576-577; entry #2509).
  • Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. θάλαμος (scan p. 433; entry #3061).

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