1. ὕπνον · hypnon — Beekes
ὕπνον [n.] “a kind of lichen’ (Aet.). «Ὁ eETYM Unknown. — [Beekes, s.v. ὕπνον, p. 1586]
The corpus record
ὕπνον
upnon
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Where it lives
- De Insomniis 14 · 58.68/10k
- De Divinatione per Somnum 6 · 50.04/10k
- De Somno et Vigilia 9 · 30.27/10k
- Hiero 6 · 10.07/10k
- Agamemnon 8 · 9.86/10k
- Heracles 6 · 7.67/10k
- Eumenides 4 · 7.63/10k
- Orestes 7 · 7.14/10k
- Philoctetes 6 · 6.82/10k
- Machabaeourum III 3 · 5.97/10k
- De longitudine et brevitate vitae 1 · 5.68/10k
- Libation Bearers 3 · 5.58/10k
Densest 12 of 73 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. ὕπνον · hypnon — LSJ
lichen
a kind of lichen, Aët. 1.75, and cited by Cornarius Comm.ad Gal.Pharm.sec.locos, Basel 1537, p.290, from Aët. 12.44 ( = 55 Kostomiris), 13.117,118.
In the wild
- ὕπνον · hypnon Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1448–1453
- ὕπνῳ · hypnōi Aeschylus, Agamemnon 14–15
- ὕπνου · hypnou Aeschylus, Agamemnon 14–15
- ὕπνου · hypnou Aeschylus, Agamemnon 16–19
- ὕπνου · hypnou Aeschylus, Agamemnon 423–426
- ὕπνῳ · hypnōi Aeschylus, Agamemnon 290–291
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. ὕπνον (scan p. 1586; entry #6246).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ὕπνον (scan p. 1178; entry #8264).
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