The corpus record

ἀχθ-ηδών

achthedon · ἡ

weight, burden

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Where it lives

Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
Cratylus 1 · 0.56/10k
History 2 · 0.13/10k
Laws 1 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

ἀχθ-ηδών · achth-ēdōn — LSJ

weight, burden

weight, burden, ἀ. κακοῦ A. Pr. 26.

2 vexation, annoyance, teasing

metaph., vexation, annoyance, Th. 2.37, Pl. Lg. 734a; ἐρέσθαι τινὰ διʼ ἀχθηδόνα for the sake of teasing, Th. 4.40; μὴ πρὸς ἀχθηδόνα μου ἀκούσης Luc. Tox. 9.

In the wild

ἀχθηδὼν · achthēdōn Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 26
ἀχθηδὼν · achthēdōn Plato, Cratylus 419 (DIORISIS sentence 925)
ἀχθηδόνων · achthēdonōn Plato, Laws 734
ἀχθηδόνας · achthēdonas Thucydides, History 2.37.2 (DIORISIS sentence 1202)
ἀχθηδόνα · achthēdona Thucydides, History 4.40.2 (DIORISIS sentence 2796)

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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