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ξυνός

xunos

common, public, usual

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What it meant

1. ξῦνός · xynos — Beekes

ξῦνός [adj.] ‘common, public, usual’ (epic Ion., Il), = κοινός. «COMP Rarely in compounds, e.g. éni-Evvog = ἐπί-κοινος ‘common’ (M 422). *DER 1. ξυνάων, -άν (Pi), ξυνέων (Hes.), ξυνών (S.) [m.] = κοινάν, -ὧν ‘comrade, companion’, whence Evvwvia (Archil.), ξυνωνός (Theognost.); see on κοινών, -via, -νός (s.v. » κοινός). 2. ξυνήϊα [n-pl.] ‘common booty’, 1.6, not yet distributed (A 124, Ψ 809), after πρεσβήϊα, … — [Beekes, s.v. ξῦνός, p. 1089]

2. ξῡνός · xynos — LSJ

common, public, general, hath an even hand, state, government, for the common good, in common

= κοινός, common, public, general, ξ. κακόν Il. 16.262 ; γαῖα δʼ ἔτι ξ. πάντων 15.193 ; ξ. Ἐνυάλιος, i.e. war hath an even hand, 18.309 ; ξ. ἀνθρώποις Ἄρης Archil. 62 ; also of Apollo and Dionysus, AP 9.524.15,525.15 ; ξυναὶ γὰρ τότε δαῖτες ἔσαν ξυνοὶ δὲ θόωκοι Hes. Fr. 82 ; ξ. δʼ ἐσθλὸν τοῦτο πόληΐ τε παντί τε δήμῳ Tyrt. 12.15 ; ξ. Ἑλλήνων τε καὶ βαρβάρων λόγος Hdt. 4.12 ; ξ. πᾶσι ἀγαθόν Id. 7.53 ; ξ. δόρυ S. Aj. 180 (lyr.) ; τὸ ξ. state, government (cf. κοινός), SIG 37 A 3 (Teos, v B.C.) ; ξυν

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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. ξυνός (scan p. 1089; entry #4407).

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