The corpus record

ἄδεσμ-ος

adesmos

unfettered, unbound

Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Suppliants 1 · 1.42/10k
History 1 · 0.07/10k

What it meant

ἄδεσμ-ος · adesm-os — LSJ

unfettered, unbound, ‘parole’, open, unbandaged

unfettered, unbound, ἄ. φυλακή, Lat. libera custodia, ‘parole’, Th. 3.34, D.H. 1.83, etc.; βαλλάντια ἄ. open purses, Plu. Garr. 2.503c; δεσμὸν ἄδεσμον φυλλάδος, of suppliantʼs wreath, E. Supp. 32; unbandaged, Gal. 18(2).505.

In the wild

ἄδεσμον · adesmon Euripides, Suppliants *ai)/qra (DIORISIS sentence 8)
ἀδέσμῳ · adesmōi Thucydides, History 3.34.3 (DIORISIS sentence 1947)

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.

Ask the librarian

Ask about ἄδεσμ-ος →