master of the sea
master of the sea, Hdt. 5.83, Th. 8.63, X. HG 1.6.2.
The corpus record
θᾰλασσο-κράτωρ
thalassokrator · ὁ
master of the sea
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Where it lives
- Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k
- History 1 · 0.07/10k
- Histories 1 · 0.05/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- θαλασσοκράτορες · thalassokratores Herodotus, Histories 5.83.2 (DIORISIS sentence 5904)
- θαλασσοκράτορες · thalassokratores Thucydides, History 8.63.1 (DIORISIS sentence 5748)
- θαλαττοκράτωρ · thalattokratōr Xenophon, Hellenica 1.6.2 (DIORISIS sentence 223)
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.