The corpus record

ἄδῠτος

adutos

not to be entered

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Where it lives

Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k
Enneads 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant — LSJ

not to be entered

not to be entered, θησαυρός Pi. P. 11.4; ἄ. ἐστιν ὁ τόπος Str. 14.1.44.

2 never setting

never setting, of stars, Sch. Arat. 632.

II innermost sanctuary, shrine

mostly as Subst. (masc. in h.Merc. 247, neut. in Hdt. 5.72, E. Ion 938), innermost sanctuary or shrine, Il. 5.448, 512, h.Ap. 443; εὐώδεος ἐξ ἀ. Pi. O. 7.32: metaph., ἐκ τοῦ ἀ. τῆς βίβλου Pl. Tht. 162a; ἄ. θαλάσσης Opp. H. 1.49, cf. Hymn.Is. 152.

In the wild

ἄδυτον · adyton Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 5.6 (DIORISIS sentence 4635)
ἄδυτον · adyton Herodotus, Histories 5.72.3 (DIORISIS sentence 5831)
ἄδυτον · adyton Plotinus, Enneads 6.9 (DIORISIS sentence 6518)

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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