The corpus record

ἀχθ-εινός

achtheinos

burdensome, oppressive

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Where it lives

Hecuba 1 · 1.4/10k
Memorabilia 1 · 0.28/10k
Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k

What it meant — LSJ

burdensome, oppressive, that cost, dear, unwillingly

burdensome, oppressive, of persons, E. Hipp. 94; of things, Id. Hec. 1240; τὸ -ότατον τοῦ βίου X. Mem. 4.8.1; βοοκτασία, i.e. that cost the slayer dear, AP 6.263 (Leon.). Adv. -νῶς unwillingly, οὐκ ἀ. ὁρᾶν τι X. HG 4.8.27.

II laborious

laborious, βόες IG 14.2012.16 (Sulp. Max.).

In the wild

ἀχθεινὰ · achtheina Euripides, Hecuba 1240 (DIORISIS sentence 697)
ἀχθεινῶς · achtheinōs Xenophon, Hellenica 4.8.27 (DIORISIS sentence 1816)
ἀχθεινότατόν · achtheinotaton Xenophon, Memorabilia 4.8.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2198)

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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