fem. of θής (q.v.).
II sacred car
= Lat. tensa, sacred car, Plu. Cor. 25.
The corpus record
θῆσσα
thessa
sacred car
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Where it lives
- Euthyphro 1 · 1.93/10k
- Works and Days 1 · 1.73/10k
- Electra 1 · 1.32/10k
- Athenian Constitution 1 · 0.61/10k
- Politics 4 · 0.61/10k
- Statesman 1 · 0.59/10k
- Theaetetus 1 · 0.44/10k
- Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k
- Odyssey 1 · 0.12/10k
- Histories 2 · 0.11/10k
- History 1 · 0.07/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- θῆτα · thēta Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..7 (DIORISIS sentence 90)
- θῆτες · thētes Aristotle, Politics 1278a (DIORISIS sentence 998)
- θῆτα · thēta Aristotle, Politics 1278a (DIORISIS sentence 999)
- θῆτα · thēta Aristotle, Politics 1278a (DIORISIS sentence 1001)
- θητῶν · thētōn Aristotle, Politics 1342a (DIORISIS sentence 3136)
- θῆσσαν · thēssan Euripides, Electra 3 (DIORISIS sentence 72)
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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.