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τῑμωρ-ός

timoros

protecting, protector, avenging, avenger

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Where it lives

On the Confiscation of the Property Of The Brother Of Nicias 1 · 7.44/10k
Electra 3 · 3.46/10k
Hecuba 2 · 2.79/10k
Against Evergus And Mnesibulus 1 · 1.87/10k
Epinomis 1 · 1.59/10k
De Mundo 1 · 1.58/10k
Electra 1 · 1.32/10k
Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k
Phaedo 1 · 0.46/10k
Histories 6 · 0.33/10k
Laws 3 · 0.29/10k
Cyropaedia 2 · 0.25/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. τιμωρός · timōros — Beekes

τιμωρός [adj.] ‘protecting, protector, avenging, avenger’ (Hdt,, Att.). 1486 τινάσσῳ eVAR Dor. τιμάορος (Pi, trag.), Hell. epic τιμήορος (A. R.). DER tipwp-ia, -in, -έω, -Eoptat, -ησις, -ημα, -ητής, -ητήρ, -ητικός, -iTopat. *ETYM Originally “preserving or guarding τιμή", from ἔτιμα-Εορ-ος, ἃ univerbation of » τιμή and » ὁράω. — [Beekes, s.v. τιμωρός, p. 1536]

2. τιμωρός · timōros — Chantraine

τιμωρός : Hdt., att. ; dor. τιμᾷἄορος (Pi., trag.), épopée hellén. τιμήορος ; en outre, acc. athématique τιμάορα (Æsch. Suppl. 42) forme probablement artificielle « protecteur », dit d’un dieu ou d’un homme (cf. Æsch. Ag. 514), d’où «vengeur » (Antipho, trag.), «qui porte secours » (Hdt., Th.). Dérivés : τιμωρία f. « protection, vengeance, punition» (différent de κόλασις, cf. s.u.), « secours » {ion.-att., grec … — [Chantraine, s.v. τιμωρός, p. 1139]

3. τιμωρός · timōros — Frisk

τιμωρός (Hdt., att.), dor. τιμάορος (Pi., Trag.), hell. Ep. τιμήορος (A.R.) "beschützend, Beschützer, rächend, Rächer’ mit τιμῶρ- -ία, -in, -Ew, -έομαι, «σις, τημα, -ἡτής, -ητήρ, -ητικός, -KZouar. — Eig. „die τιμή wahrend, bewachend‘, aus *rıuaFog-os, Univerbierung (Zusammenbildung) von τιμή und 902 τινάσσω.---τίνω — [Frisk, s.v. τιμωρός, p. 1873]

4. τῑμωρ-ός · timōr-os — LSJ

avenging, avenger, avenger, helping, to vengeance for, avenger, for vengeance

avenging, and as Subst. avenger, τ. τινός any oneʼs avenger, A. Ag. 1280, 1324, 1578, S. El. 811, 1156, etc.: c. dat., τ. τινὶ γενέσθαι Antipho 1.2: c. gen. rei, helping one to vengeance for a thing, πατρὶ τ. φόνου S. El. 14: abs., ἐπεὶ τιμάορος ἕστωρ the founder is the avenger, IG l.c. (cf. Berl.Sitzb. 1928.19): not always of persons, δίκη κακῶν τ. S. Fr. 107.9; ἡ τῶν συγγενῶν αἱμάτων τ. δίκη Pl. Lg. 872e, cf. 716a; χείρ E. Hec. 843; λόγος τ. a plea or argument for vengeance, Hdt. 7.5.

2 executioner

executioner, Plb. 2.58.8.

τιμωρόν, τό, = κώνειον, Ps.-Dsc. 4.78.

II succouring, succourer, tutelary

succouring, and as Subst. succourer of one who has been attacked or wronged, Hdt. 2.141, 7.171, Th. 4.2; τὸν ἐμὸν τιμάορον Ἑρμῆν my tutelary god, A. Ag. 514; ἡρῷσσαι, Λιβύης τιμήοροι ἠδὲ θύγατρες A.R. 4.1358; Ἀπόλλωνα . . Ἀνάφης τιμήορον ib. 1730.

2 to pay honour to

metaph., ἦλθον τιμάορος Ἰσθμίαισι Λαμπρομάχου μίτραις I have come to pay honour to . . , Pi. l.c. (τιμα-ορος perh. ‘penalty-exactor’, fr. τιμή III and ἄρνυμαι:—for the accentuations τιμάορος: τιμωρός, cf. λυράοιδος: λυρῳδός, on which see Hdn.Gr. 1.229.)

In the wild

τιμωρός · timōros Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 176)
τιμωροῦ · timōrou Demosthenes, Against Evergus And Mnesibulus 70 (DIORISIS sentence 173)
τιμωρὸν · timōron Euripides, Electra (DIORISIS sentence 428)
τιμωρόν · timōron Euripides, Hecuba *(eka/bh (DIORISIS sentence 455)
τιμωρὸς · timōros Euripides, Hecuba *(eka/bh (DIORISIS sentence 430)
τιμωροὺς · timōrous Euripides, Heracles 168–169

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