λευκόν
leukon
white
Appears 724 times across Aristotle's works.
Frequency by work
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Prior Analytics 146 ▸
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Metaphysics 130 ▸
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Book Γ 20 ▸
Book Δ 9 ▸
Book Ε 1 ▸
Chapter 2 1026a33–1027a28Book Ζ 26 ▸
Chapter 1 1028a10–1028b7Chapter 4 1029b1–1030b13Chapter 15 1039b20–1040b4Book Ι 19 ▸
Chapter 6 1056b3–1057a17Book Κ 16 ▸
Book Λ 6 ▸
Book Μ 11 ▸
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Physics 83 ▸
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Book II 1 ▸
Chapter 5 196b10–197a35Book III 1 ▸
Chapter 1 200b12–201b15Book V 15 ▸
Book VI 12 ▸
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Topics 52 ▸
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Book II 10 ▸
Book III 1 ▸
Chapter 5 119a12–31Book IV 13 ▸
Book VII 1 ▸
Chapter 3 153a6–154a11 -
History of Animals 48 ▸
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Generation of Animals 39 ▸
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Categories 34 ▸
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De Anima 26 ▸
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Chapter 3 405b31–407b26 -
Sense and Sensibilia 24 ▸
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On Generation and Corruption 14 ▸
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Eudemian Ethics 4 ▸
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On Melissus, Xenophanes, and Gorgias 4 ▸
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De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus 4 ▸
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On Memory 3 ▸
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On Dreams 2 ▸
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Nicomachean Ethics 1 ▸
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Chapter 7 1141a9–1141b22 -
On Length and Shortness of Life 1 ▸
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Mechanica 1 ▸
Open Mechanica ›Chapter 24 855a28–856a38 -
Physiognomonics 1 ▸
Open Physiognomonics ›Chapter 6 810a14–814b9 -
Poetics 1 ▸
Open Poetics ›Chapter 20 1456b20–1457a30 -
Rhetoric 1 ▸
Open Rhetoric ›Book III 1 ▸
Chapter 3 1405b35–1406b19
Dictionary (LSJ)
λευκόν, τό, A. white, as a colour, τὸ λ. οἶδεν knows white from black, Ar. Eq. 1279; opp. μέλαν, Pl. Prt. 331d. 2. a white dress, λευκὸν ἀμπέχει are dressed in white, Ar. Ach. 1024; ἠμφιεσμένη λευκά Id. Th. 840. 3. white of egg, Hp. Nat.Mul. 32, Arist. GA 753a35, Dsc. 2.50. 4. τὰ λ. the whites of the eyes, Hp. Prog. 2, Alex. 222.9, cf. Arist. HA 492a1. 5. τὰ λ. the menstrua alba of young girls, Id. GA 738a26, HA 581b2; more generally, Hp. Prorrh. 1.80, Epid. 4.22. 6. of a white formation in testaceans, Arist. HA 529a3.
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