The corpus record

ἀβέλτερος

abelteros

silly, stupid

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Where it lives

Enchiridion 1 · 2.02/10k
Hippias Major 1 · 1.18/10k
Philebus 1 · 0.57/10k
Discourses 1 · 0.13/10k
Republic 1 · 0.11/10k

What it meant — LSJ

silly, stupid

silly, stupid, Ar. Nu. 1201, Antiph. 324, Pl. R. 409c, etc.; δόξαι Polystr. p.29W.; πρός τι Anaxandr. 21; ἀ. τι παθεῖν D. 19.338: c. inf., ἀ. ἀντιτείνειν Hierocl. in CA 10p.434M.: irreg. Comp. ἀβελτερέστερος (s.v.l.) Gal. 18(2).337: Sup. -ώτατος Ar. Ra. 989; of Margites, Hyp. Lyc. 7. Adv. -ρως Polystr. l.c., Plu. Sanit. 2.127e. (Comic formation, cf. βέλτερος.)

In the wild

ἀβέλτερον · abelteron Epictetus, Discourses 4.7 (DIORISIS sentence 6835)
ἀβέλτερος · abelteros Epictetus, Enchiridion 25 (DIORISIS sentence 175)
ἀβέλτεροι · abelteroi Plato, Hippias Major 301
ἀβελτέραν · abelteran Plato, Philebus 48
ἀβέλτερος · abelteros Plato, Republic 3.409 (DIORISIS sentence 1952)

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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