θέω

Where it lives

• Hippias Minor 9 · 20.66/10k
• On Hunting 6 · 6.59/10k
• Shield of Heracles 2 · 6.18/10k
• Iliad 66 · 5.92/10k
• On the Art of Horsemanship 3 · 4.32/10k
• Anabasis 23 · 4.09/10k
• Odyssey 25 · 2.88/10k
• Protagoras 5 · 2.81/10k
• Alcibiades 2 1 · 2.34/10k
• Apology 2 · 2.29/10k
• Oedipus at Colonus 2 · 1.93/10k
• Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k

Densest 12 of 44 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

In the wild

• θεῖτʼ · theitʼ Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 526–535
• θεῖτο · theito Aristotle, De Interpretatione (DIORISIS sentence 59)
• θεῖν · thein Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 15)
• θεῖτο · theito Aristotle, Metaphysics book 7 (DIORISIS sentence 1734)
• θεύσεται · theusetai Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 4.6 (DIORISIS sentence 3372)
• θεώμεθα · theōmetha Epictetus, Discourses 3.7 (DIORISIS sentence 4103)

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Where it came from

• Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. θέω (scan pp. 591-592; entry #2560). Root candidates: *dawwa-.
• Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. θέω (scan p. 447; entry #3134).

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