δίψα

dipsa

thirst

Appears 8 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Rhetoric 3
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Book I 2
Chapter 11 1369b33–1372a3

1370a22
1370b18
Book II 1
Chapter 12 1388b31–1389b12

1389a8
De Anima 2
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Book II 2
Chapter 3 414a29–415a13

414b12
414b13
Nicomachean Ethics 2
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Book VII 2
Chapter 4 1147b20–1148b14

1148a8

Chapter 14 1154a8–1154b34

1154b3
On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 1
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Chapter 6 470a19–470b5

470a25

Dictionary (LSJ)

δίψα, ης, ἡ, A. thirst, δ. τε καὶ λιμός Il. 19.166; πεῖνα καὶ δ. Pl. R. 585a; δίψῃ ξυνέχεσθαι Th. 2.49, etc.; of trees, Antiph. 231.6, PFlor. 176.12 (iii A. D.): pl., Arist. EN 1154b3. 2. c. gen., thirst for, ποτοῦ Pl. R. 437d: metaph., ἀοιδᾶν δ. Pi. P. 9.104.—The form δίψη occurs in Opp. C. 4.339, and in codd. of A. Ch. 756; cf. δίψος.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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