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τοῖχος

toichos · ὁ

wall of a house

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Where it lives

Habacuc 1 · 9.14/10k
Ezechiel 22 · 7.61/10k
Regnorum III 10 · 5.23/10k
Canticum 1 · 5.14/10k
De Insomniis 1 · 4.19/10k
Tobias (cod. Vat. et Alex.) 2 · 3.81/10k
Amos 1 · 3.25/10k
Against Conon 1 · 3.15/10k
Fragments 1 · 2.51/10k
Odae 1 · 2.46/10k
Regnorum IV 4 · 2.31/10k
Regnorum I 4 · 2.16/10k

Densest 12 of 55 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

τοῖχος · toichos — LSJ

wall of a house, enclosure, wall of a temple, walls, side

wall of a house or enclosure, abs., Od. 2.342, Ar. V. 130, etc.; ἅπαντʼ ἐρευνῶν τ. dub. in E. Hec. 1174; τ. δώματος Il. 16.212; μεγάροιο 18.374, cf. Od. 19.37; τ. καὶ θριγκοί (of the αὐλή) 17.267, cf. Hes. Op. 732; τὸν τῆς αὐλῆς τ. PEnteux. 12.3 (iii B. C.); wall of a temple, IG 1(2).372.51, al.; οἰκίας Pl. R. 574d; ἐν τοῖσι τ. ἔγραφʼ Ἀθηναῖοι καλοί Ar. Ach. 144, cf. Pl. Lg. 859a; εἰς τὸν τ. ἀντεγγραψάτω IG 1(2).94.24; νόμους ἀναγράφειν εἰς τοῖχον Decr. ap. And. 1.84; κοινοὶ τ. party-walls, OGI

metaph., τοῖχε κεκονιαμένε, as a term of abuse, Act.Ap. 23.3.

2 sides of a ship

pl., sides of a ship, Od. 12.420, Thgn. 674, E. Hel. 1573, Th. 7.36, Theoc. 22.12; τοίχου ἄρχω τοῦ δεξιοῦ Luc. DMeretr. 14.3, cf. JTr. 49.

of other things, as the human body, εἰς ἀμφοτέρους τοίχους (by metaph. from a ship) E. Tr. 118 (anap.), cf. Luc. Asin. 9; of a cup, Pherecr. 143.2; of a vessel, Arist. Mete. 359a3; of a bath (πύελος), Gal. 15.709.

prov., τοίχους τοὺς δύο ἐπαλείφειν ‘to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds’, Paus. 6.3.15, cf. Suid. s.v. δύο τοίχους; ὁ εὖ πράττων τ. ‘the snug side of the ship’, ‘the right side of the hedge’, Ar. Ra. 537 (lyr.); ἐς τὸν εὐτυχῆ τ. χωρεῖν E. Fr. 89. (Akin to τεῖχος, but used in a special sense; later = τεῖχος, LXX Is. 25.12, prob. so in JHS 24.39 (Cyzicus).)

In the wild

τοίχοις · toichois Aristophanes, Acharnians (DIORISIS sentence 117)
τοῖχον · toichon Aristophanes, Frogs 534–538
τοίχους · toichous Aristophanes, Plutus 565 (DIORISIS sentence 468)
τοῖχον · toichon Aristophanes, Wasps (DIORISIS sentence 84)
τοῖχος · toichos Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Α (DIORISIS sentence 1713)
τοῖχος · toichos Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Α (DIORISIS sentence 1714)

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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. τοῖχος (scan p. 1542; entry #6100).
Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. τοῖχος (scan p. 1142; entry #8049).
Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. τοῖχος (scan p. 1880; entry #5697).

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