1. τρίαινα · triaina — Beekes
The corpus record
τρίαινα
triaina
trident
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Where it lives
- Suppliant Maidens 2 · 4.15/10k
- Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
- Knights 1 · 1.13/10k
- Ion 1 · 1.09/10k
- Clouds 1 · 1.04/10k
- Phoenissae 1 · 1.04/10k
- Odyssey 2 · 0.23/10k
- Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k
What it meant
2. τρίαινα · triaina — Chantraine
3. Τρίαινα · Triaina — Chantraine
4. τρίαινα · triaina — Frisk
5. τρίαινα · triaina — Frisk
6. τρίαινα · triaina — LSJ
trident, three-pronged fish-spear, the badge of Poseidon, Il. 12.27, Od. 4.506, 5.292, A. Pr. 925, E. Fr. 360.47; as a symbol of the empire of the sea, Ar. Eq. 839; τρίαιναν ἐσθλὸς καὶ κυβερνήτης σοφός, i. e. a good fisherman . . , Archil. 45.
three-pronged fork, Longus 4.40; cf. τριαινόω II.
a constellation rising with Pisces, Teucer in Boll Sphaera 52.
a kind of cautery, Paul.Aeg. 6.48.
In the wild
- τρίαιναν · triainan Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 924–925
- τριαίνας · triainas Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 755–756
- τρίαιναν · triainan Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 218
- τριαίνης · triainēs Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 435)
- τρίαιναν · triainan Aristophanes, Knights (DIORISIS sentence 599)
- τριαίνης · triainēs Euripides, Ion (DIORISIS sentence 141)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. τρίαινα (scan p. 1559; entry #6153). Root candidates: *tpiarvw-.
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. τρίαινα (scan p. 1155; entry #8124).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. τρίαινα (scan pp. 1395-1396; entry #4334).
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