desire to die
desire to die, Pl. Phd. 64b, Ax. 366c, Alex. 211, J. BJ 3.7.18, Gal. 8.190, Max.Tyr. 26.9, Philostr. VA 7.31.
II to be moribund
to be moribund, Ph. 2.505, Lyd. Mag. 3.40, v.l. in 45.
The corpus record
θᾰνᾰτ-άω
thanatao
desire to die
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Where it lives
- Regnorum I 12 · 6.48/10k
- Regnorum II 5 · 3.09/10k
- Regnorum III 5 · 2.62/10k
- Odae 1 · 2.46/10k
- 2 Corinthians 1 · 2.23/10k
- Ecclesiastes 1 · 2.21/10k
- Oeconomica II 1 · 2.13/10k
- Regnorum IV 3 · 1.73/10k
- Economics 1 · 1.61/10k
- Romans 1 · 1.43/10k
- Machabaeorum IV 1 · 1.3/10k
- Athenian Constitution 2 · 1.23/10k
Densest 12 of 26 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- θανατοῦντας · thanatountas Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..37 (DIORISIS sentence 435)
- θανατοῦν · thanatoun Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..45 (DIORISIS sentence 536)
- θανατῶσαι · thanatōsai Aristotle, Economics 1347b (DIORISIS sentence 177)
- θανατῶσαι · thanatōsai Aristotle, Oeconomica II (DIORISIS sentence 65)
- θανατοῦνται · thanatountai Aristotle, Rhetoric 2
- θανατούμενοι · thanatoumenoi New Testament, 2 Corinthians 6.9 (DIORISIS sentence 97)
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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.