not sweet, bitter, cruel, unexpected, not imitative
(Expl. by Scholl. either (cf. δεῦκος, q.v.) not sweet, i.e. bitter, cruel, or (cf. δεύκει) unexpected, cf. Apollon. Lex., Hsch.:—ἀ.φωνή expl. as not imitative, opp. πολυδευκής, Ael. NA 5.38.)
The corpus record
ἀδευκής
adeukes
not sweet, bitter, cruel, unexpected
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Where it lives
- Odyssey 3 · 0.35/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ἀδευκέα · adeukea Odyssey 10.245
- ἀδευκέι · adeukei Odyssey 4.489
- ἀδευκέα · adeukea Odyssey 6.273
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.