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ξανθός

xanthos

yellow, golden yellow, reddish, brownish, blond

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Where it lives

  • Iphigenia in Aulis 4 · 4.48/10k
  • Heracles 3 · 3.83/10k
  • Iphigenia in Tauris 3 · 3.62/10k
  • Electra 2 · 2.65/10k
  • Timaeus 6 · 2.54/10k
  • Odyssey 19 · 2.19/10k
  • Iliad 23 · 2.06/10k
  • Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
  • Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
  • Lysis 1 · 1.44/10k
  • Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k
  • Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k

Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. ξανθός · xanthos — Beekes

ξανθός [adj.} ‘yellow, golden yellow, reddish, brownish, blond’, of hairs (I].), also of other things (post-Hom.); on the mg. Capelle RhM 101 (1958): 21f. « PG?> *DIALMyc. PN ka-sa-to, cf. Gallavotti Par. del pass. 12 (1957): 10f. *COMP ξανθο-κόμης (also -ος) ‘blond-haired’ (Hes., Pi.), ἐπίτξανθος ‘almost yellow, yellowish’ (X, Thphr.) beside ἐπι-ξανθίζομαι [v.] ‘to become yellowish or brownish’ (Pherecr.). *DER 1. … — [Beekes, s.v. ξανθός, p. 1084]

2. ξανθός · xanthos — Chantraine

ξανθός : « jaune, doré, blond », se distingue franchement de χλωρός + jaune-vert » ; défini par PL Ti. 68 Ὁ : λαμπρὸν ἐρυθρῷ λευκῷ τε μειγνύμενον ; chez Hom. dit de cheveux (ou personnes) blonds, de chevaux alezans ; après Homère attesté de façon très variée, pour l'or, le feu, le miel, etc. (Hom., ion.-att., etc.), cf. Capelle, Rh. Mus. 101, 1958, 21 sq. Le mot est important en poésie pour qualifier les cheveux … — [Chantraine, s.v. ξανθός, p. 780]

3. ξανθός · xanthos — Chantraine

ξανθός pélasgiques, cf. Hester, Lingua 13, 1965, 361. Voir aussi ξουθός. — [Chantraine, s.v. ξανθός, p. 781]

4. ξανθός · xanthos — Frisk

ξανθός “gelb, goldgelb, rötlich, bräunlich, blond’, von den Haaren (seit Il.), auch von anderen Gegenständen (nachhom.); zur Bed. Capelle RhM 101, 21f.; myk. ka-sa-to als EN, vgl. Gallavotti Par. del Pass. 12,10f. Kompp., z.B. £avdo-xöuns (-ος) "blondhaarig’ (Hes., Pi. u.a.), Eni-£avdos “ins Gelbe spielend, gelblich’ (X., Thphr.; Strömberg Prefix Studies 105) neben ἐπι-ξανϑίζομαι ‘gelblich, bräunlich werden’ … — [Frisk, s.v. ξανθός, p. 1305]

5. ξανθός · xanthos — LSJ

yellow, brown, auburn, fair, golden, golden, bay

yellow, of various shades, freq. with a tinge of red, brown, auburn, λαμπρὸν ἐρυθρῷ λευκῷ τε μειγνύμενον Pl. Ti. 68b ; ἔστι δὲ τὸ ξ. ἐν τῇ ἴριδι χρῶμα μεταξὺ τοῦ τε φοινικοῦ καὶ πρασίνου χρώματος Arist. Mete. 375a11 ; ξανθὸν ἐρεύθεσθαι AP 12.97 (Antip.) : in Ep. mostly used of fair, golden hair, ξ. κόμη, χαίτη, of Achilles, Il. 1.197, 23.141 ; ξ. τρίχες, of Odysseus, Od. 13.399, 431 ; κάρη ξ. Μενέλαος (but usu. ξ. M. alone) 15.133 ; also of women, ξ. Ἀγαμήδη Il. 11.740 ; Ἀριάδνη Hes. Th. 947 (bu

2 yellow

after Hom. of all kinds of objects, ἄρτοι ξ. Xenoph. 1.9 ; ξανθῶν σπονδὰς μελιτῶν v.l. in Emp. 128.7 ; ἴων ξ. ἀκτῖνες Pi. O. 6.55 ; ξ. νεφέλα, of gold, ib. 7.49 ; μέλι Simon. 47 ; φλόξ B. Fr. 3.4 ; ἀκτῖνες πυρός Sopat. 13 ; ἐλαία A. Pers. 617 ; of wine, ξ. Ἀφροδισία λάταξ S. Fr. 277 (lyr.) ; of a roast pigeon, Ar. Ach. 1106 ; ξανθαῖσιν αὔραις ἀγάλλεται exults in its yellow fragrance, of a fried fish, Antiph. 217.22 : in Medic., freq. of bile, Hp. VM 19, etc. : Comp. -ότερος Pl. R. 617a : Sup. -ό

II

Ξάνθος, parox., as pr. n.,

1

a stream of the Troad, so called by gods, by men Scamander, Il. 20.74, etc.

2 Bayard, Piebald

a horse of Achilles, Bayard, the other being Βαλίος, Piebald, 16.149.

3

name of a man, D.H. 1.28, etc.

4

fem., a city of Lycia, Hdt. 1.176, etc.

In the wild

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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. ξανθός (scan pp. 1084-1085; entry #4391).
  • Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ξανθός (scan p. 780; entry #5717).
  • Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ξανθός (scan p. 1305; entry #4145).

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