Abydos, on the Asiatic side of the Hellespont:— Ἀβυδόθεν, Adv. from Abydos, Il. 4.500; Ἀβυδόθι, at Abydos, 17.584:—Adj. Ἀβυδηνός, ή, όν, of or from Abydos, Ath. 13.572e, etc.: prov., Ἀ. ἐπιφόρημα a dessert of Abydos, i.e. something unpleasant, variously expl., Zen. 1.1, etc.; μὴ εἰκῆ τὴν Ἄβυδον (sc. πατεῖν) Paus.Gr. Fr. 2: Ἀβυδοκόμης (Ἀβυδηνοκώμης or -κόμος Zen. 1.1), ου, ὁ = ὁ ἐπὶ τῷ συκοφαντεῖν κομῶν, Ar. Fr. 733.
The corpus record
Ἄβυδος
abudos · ἡ
Abydos, from Abydos, at Abydos
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Where it lives
- Hellenica 18 · 2.74/10k
- History 13 · 0.87/10k
- Histories 14 · 0.76/10k
- Politics 2 · 0.31/10k
- Anabasis 1 · 0.18/10k
- Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k
What it meant — LSJ
Abydos, from Abydos, at Abydos, of, from Abydos, of Abydos, something unpleasant
In the wild
- Ἀβύδῳ · Abydōi Aristotle, Politics 1305b (DIORISIS sentence 1948)
- Ἀβύδῳ · Abydōi Aristotle, Politics 1306a (DIORISIS sentence 1962)
- Ἄβυδόν · Abydon Herodotus, Histories 5.117.1 (DIORISIS sentence 6146)
- Ἀβύδῳ · Abydōi Herodotus, Histories 7.147.2 (DIORISIS sentence 7892)
- Ἀβύδῳ · Abydōi Herodotus, Histories 7.174.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8082)
- Ἀβύδῳ · Abydōi Herodotus, Histories 7.33.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7281)
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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.