like a chest, coffin, burial
like a chest or coffin, οἴκημα θ. burial vault, Hdt. 2.86; perh. to be read in Plu. Isid. 2.359a.
II
Subst. θηκαῖον, τό, = θήκη, SIG 1120 (pl., Cos).
The corpus record
θηκ-αῖος
thekaios
like a chest
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Where it lives
- Histories 1 · 0.05/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- θηκαίῳ · thēkaiōi Herodotus, Histories 2.86.7 (DIORISIS sentence 2137)
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.