oneʼs fatherʼs, motherʼs sister, aunt
oneʼs fatherʼs or motherʼs sister, aunt, POxy. 274.5 (i A.D.), Ammon. Diff. p.130 V., etc. (Late formation fr. θεῖος (B), replacing τηθίς.)
The corpus record
θεία
theia · ἡ
oneʼs fatherʼs
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Where it lives
- Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
- Enchiridion 1 · 2.02/10k
- Epinomis 1 · 1.59/10k
- De Mundo 1 · 1.58/10k
- Machabaeorum IV 1 · 1.3/10k
- Apology 1 · 1.14/10k
- Philoctetes 1 · 1.14/10k
- Philebus 2 · 1.13/10k
- Helen 1 · 1.02/10k
- Oedipus at Colonus 1 · 0.97/10k
- Parmenides 1 · 0.66/10k
- Phaedrus 1 · 0.6/10k
Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- θείαις · theiais Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 574–579
- θείαι · theiai Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 131)
- θείας · theias Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 1
- θεῖʼ · theiʼ Epictetus, Enchiridion 53 (DIORISIS sentence 401)
- θεῖʼ · theiʼ Euripides, Helen (DIORISIS sentence 635)
- θεία · theia Plato, Apology 33
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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.