1. ὑφαίνω · hyphainō — Beekes
The corpus record
ὑφαίνω
uphaino
to weave, warp, devise, produce
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Where it lives
- Shield of Heracles 1 · 3.09/10k
- Ecclesiazusae 2 · 2.62/10k
- Iphigenia in Tauris 2 · 2.41/10k
- Charmides 2 · 2.41/10k
- Wasps 2 · 2.06/10k
- Critias 1 · 2.02/10k
- Odyssey 16 · 1.84/10k
- Works and Days 1 · 1.73/10k
- Paralipomenon I 2 · 1.5/10k
- Lysis 1 · 1.44/10k
- Lysistrata 1 · 1.26/10k
- Plutus 1 · 1.24/10k
Densest 12 of 30 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. ὑφαίνω · hyphainō — Chantraine
3. ὑφαίνω · hyphainō — Chantraine
4. ὑφαίνω · hyphainō — Chantraine
5. ὑφαίνω · hyphainō — Frisk
6. ὑφαίνω · hyphainō — LSJ
weave, freq. in Hom., who always joins ἱστὸν ὑφαίνειν (cf. ὑφάω), Il. 6.456, Od. 2.104, al.; except in 13.108, φάρεʼ ὑφαίνουσιν; so ὑ. ὕφασμα E. Ion 1417; χλαῖναν Ar. Lys. 586; ἱμάτιον Pl. Hp.Mi. 368c; ἐν εὐπήνοις ὑφαῖς ὑ. τι E. IT 814; ἐν Ἐκβατάνοισι ταῦθʼ ὑφαίνεται Ar. V. 1143; ἀράχνια ὑ., of spiders, Arist. HA 542a13, cf. 623a8: abs., weave, ply the loom, Hdt. 2.35; αἱ ὑφαίνουσαι Arist. GA 717a36; αἴγειροι πτελέαι τε ἐΰσκιον ἄλσος ὕφαινον Theoc. 7.8 (cj. Heinsius for ἔφαινον):— Med., ἱμάτιον
contrive, plan, of all schemes, good or bad, which are craftily imagined, freq. in Hom.; πυκινὸν δόλον ἄλλον ὕφαινε Il. 6.187; ἔνδοθι μῆτιν ὑ. Od. 4.678; ἐνὶ φρεσὶ μῆτιν ὑφήνας ib. 739; μῆτιν ὕφαινε μετὰ φρεσίν Hes. Sc. 28, cf. B. 16.51; δόλους καὶ μῆτιν ὑ. Od. 9.422; μύθους καὶ μήδεα πᾶσιν ὑ. Il. 3.212, cf. Call. Fr. 3ii10P. (Pass.); ταῦθʼ ὕφηναν ἡμῖν ἐπὶ τυραννίδι this was the plot they laid against us to bring in tyranny, Ar. Lys. 630; πάντα . . ἐκ φρενὸς ὑφάνασα Hymn.Is. 14:—Med., Nicopho 5:
generally, create, construct, οἰκοδομήματα Pl. Criti. 116b; ὄλβον Pi. P. 4.141; θεμείλια Φοῖβος ὑφαίνει he lays the foundation, Call. Ap. 57; κηρὸν ὑ. Tryph. 536:—Pass., ἀναίμου ὑφανθέντος [τοῦ σπληνός] Pl. Ti. 72c.
compose, write, ποικίλον ἄνδημα (metaph. of an ode) Pi. Fr. 179; ὕμνον B. 5.9. (ὑφ-αίνω, cf. ὑφή, ὕφος, OE. wefan ‘weave’, Skt. ubhnāti ‘hold together, cover, bind’.)
In the wild
- ὑφαίνειν · hyphainein Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 566)
- ὑφαίνειν · hyphainein Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae (DIORISIS sentence 423)
- ὑφανοῦμεν · hyphanoumen Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae (DIORISIS sentence 512)
- ὕφηναν · hyphēnan Aristophanes, Lysistrata 630 (DIORISIS sentence 491)
- ὑφαίνειν · hyphainein Aristophanes, Plutus (DIORISIS sentence 442)
- ὑφαίνεται · hyphainetai Aristophanes, Wasps 1145 (DIORISIS sentence 826)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. ὑφαίνω (scan p. 1591; entry #6275).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ὑφαίνω (scan p. 1182; entry #8296). Root candidates: *webh-, *ubh-.
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ὑφαίνω (scan pp. 1948-1949; entry #5863).
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