The corpus record

θοίν-η

thoine · ἡ

meal, feast

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Where it lives

Ion 3 · 3.28/10k
Shield of Heracles 1 · 3.09/10k
Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
Hecuba 1 · 1.4/10k
Agesilaus 1 · 1.36/10k
Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
Electra 1 · 1.32/10k
Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k
Phaedrus 2 · 1.2/10k
Symposium 2 · 1.15/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

meal, feast, dinner

meal, feast, Hes. Sc. 114, Hdt. 1.119, 9.82, A. Fr. 350.7, etc.: in pl., Id. Pr. 530 (lyr.), B. Fr. 18; τὰς θ. κὰτ τὰν ὥραν ἀπάγεσθαι Michel 995D 50; θοίνῃς δὲ καὶ εἰλαπίνῃσι Thgn. 239; ἐκ θοίνας after dinner, Epich. 148.2; εἰς θ. καλεῖν τινα E. Ion 1140; ἐπὶ θοίνην ἰέναι Pl. Phdr. 247a; παρακαλεῖν ἐπὶ τὴν θ. Arist. Fr. 549; σκευαζομένης θ. Pl. Tht. 178d, cf. Arist. Pol. 1282a22; τραπέζας ἱερὰς πρεπούσης θ. γεμίζων OGI 383.146 (Commagene, i B.C.); ἐν θ. λέγειν τινά to count as a guest, and gener

II food

food, πτανοῖς E. Ion 504, cf. Tim. Pers. 150; θ. παντοδαπή Parth. 12.2.

2 feeding upon

feeding upon, c. gen., τῶν σαρκῶν Porph. Abst. 2.47. (Cf. θῶσθαι.)

In the wild

θοίναις · thoinais Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 526–535
θοίνην · thoinēn Aristotle, Politics 1324b (DIORISIS sentence 2527)
θοίνας · thoinas Euripides, Bacchae 1184
θοίνης · thoinēs Euripides, Electra *)/aggelos (DIORISIS sentence 506)
θοίναν · thoinan Euripides, Hecuba (DIORISIS sentence 603)
θοίνην · thoinēn Euripides, Heracles 955–956

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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.

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