often
often, Il. 16.207, Od. 16.27, Pi. O. 1.17, B. 12.193, S. El. 524, Ar. Eq. 990 (lyr.), Pl. 1166, Pl. Phd. 72e, X. Mem. 2.1.22; θ. τῆς ἡμέρας POxy. 1158.4 (iii A.D.). (Orig. ‘thickly’, cf. θαμέες, θάμνος.)
The corpus record
θαμά
thama
often
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Where it lives
- Cleitophon 1 · 6.46/10k
- Lysis 2 · 2.88/10k
- Electra 2 · 2.3/10k
- Works and Days 1 · 1.73/10k
- Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k
- Laches 1 · 1.3/10k
- Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k
- Philoctetes 1 · 1.14/10k
- Phaedo 2 · 0.92/10k
- Odyssey 7 · 0.81/10k
- Euthydemus 1 · 0.8/10k
- Parmenides 1 · 0.66/10k
Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- θάμʼ · thamʼ Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris *)ifige/neia (DIORISIS sentence 3)
- θαμὰ · thama Works and Days 361–363
- θαμὰ · thama Iliad 15.470
- θάμʼ · thamʼ Iliad 16.207
- θάμʼ · thamʼ Odyssey 1.143
- θαμὰ · thama Odyssey 1.209
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. θαμά (scan p. 579; entry #2516).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. θαμά (scan p. 435; entry #3070).