The corpus record

ἀδᾰ-ής

adaes

unknowing how to

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Where it lives

Philoctetes 2 · 2.27/10k
Histories 3 · 0.16/10k
Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant — LSJ

unknowing how to

= foreg., c. gen. pers., Hdt. 9.46: c. gen. rei, τῆς θυσίης, τῶν χρησμῶν, Id. 2.49, 5.90, cf. X. Cyr. 1.6.43; βουνομίας -έστερος Pi. Pae. 4 27; ὕπνʼ ὀδύνας ἀ. S. Ph. 827 (lyr.): c. inf., unknowing how to . . , ἀ. δʼ ἔχειν μυρίον ἄχθος (sc. κήρ) ib. 1167 (lyr.); οὐκ ἀ. APl. 16.84: abs., ἀ. κόρη, of a virgin, Paus.Dam. p. 160 D.

II dark

dark, Parm. 8.59.

In the wild

ἀδαὴς · adaēs Herodotus, Histories 2.49.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1896)
ἀδαέες · adaees Herodotus, Histories 5.90.2 (DIORISIS sentence 5945)
ἀδαέες · adaees Herodotus, Histories 9.46.2 (DIORISIS sentence 9648)
ἀδαής · adaēs Sophocles, Philoctetes 827–829
ἀδαὴς · adaēs Sophocles, Philoctetes 1167–1169
ἀδαὴς · adaēs Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.6.43 (DIORISIS sentence 664)

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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