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ζήτ-ησις

zetesis · ἡ

seeking, search for

Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

  • Titus 1 · 15.43/10k
  • De Memoria et Reminiscentia 3 · 12.48/10k
  • Nahum 1 · 10.83/10k
  • 2 Timothy 1 · 8.34/10k
  • 1 Timothy 1 · 6.31/10k
  • Meno 5 · 5.11/10k
  • Charmides 3 · 3.61/10k
  • Statesman 6 · 3.54/10k
  • Fragments 1 · 2.51/10k
  • Apology 2 · 2.29/10k
  • Acts 3 · 1.67/10k
  • Epinomis 1 · 1.59/10k

Densest 12 of 40 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

seeking, search for, quest

seeking, search for, κατʼ Εὐρώπης ζήτησιν ἐκπλῶσαι Hdt. 2.44; κατὰ βίου τε καὶ γῆς ζ. Id. 1.94, cf. 2.54; ἀνδρὸς κατὰ ζήτησιν in quest of him, S. Tr. 55; ἡ ζ. τῶν δρασάντων Th. 8.66; ζ. ἐπιστήμης Pl. Tht. 196d, etc.; τῆς τροφῆς Th. 8.57; τῆς ἀληθείας Id. 1.20.

2 searching, examining, searched

searching, examining, ζήτησιν ἐποιέετο τῶν νεῶν searched the ships, Hdt. 6.118, cf. Lys. 12.30, Aeschin. 1.43.

3 inquiry, investigation, inquire into

inquiry, investigation, esp. of a philosophic nature, Pl. Cra. 406a, Ap. 29c, al.; περὶ τῆς τοῦ παντὸς φύσεως Id. Ti. 47a; ζ. τοῦ μέλλοντος διὰ ὀρνίθων ποιεῖσθαι inquire into the future by augury, Id. Phdr. 244c: in pl., Id. Phd. 66d, Phld. Rh. 1.276S., 2.185S.

4 judicial inquiry, suits, controversies

judicial inquiry, Din. 1.10, POxy. 237 vi7 (ii A.D.), etc.: pl., suits, controversies, OGI 629.9 (Palmyra, ii A.D.).

In the wild

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Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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