Ὕπνος

Where it lives

• Theogony 3 · 4.36/10k
• Philoctetes 2 · 2.27/10k
• Iliad 7 · 0.63/10k

What it meant

This reads as a proper name — a river, a person, a place — held only because the corpus attests it. It stands outside the library's subject, the vocabulary of the soul, so no lexicon entry is recorded.

In the wild

• Ὕπνον · Hypnon Theogony 211–213
• Ὕπνον · Hypnon Theogony 750–756
• Ὕπνος · Hypnos Theogony 758
• Ὕπνῳ · Hypnōi Iliad 14.231
• Ὕπνε · Hypne Iliad 14.233
• Ὕπνος · Hypnos Iliad 14.242

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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. Ὕπνος (scan p. 1586; entry #6247). Root candidates: *syepno-, *suepno-, *suopno-.
• Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Ὕπνος (scan p. 1178; entry #8265).
• Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Ὕπνος (scan pp. 1942-1943; entry #5844).

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