The corpus record

ἀλέκτωρ

alektor1 · ὁ

cock, yellow rattle, Rhinanthus major, husband, consort

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Where it lives

Mark 3 · 2.73/10k
Clouds 2 · 2.08/10k
Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k
Matthew 3 · 1.67/10k
Luke 3 · 1.56/10k
John 2 · 1.31/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
Wasps 1 · 1.03/10k
Proverbia 1 · 0.9/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

ἀλέκτωρ · alektōr — LSJ

cock

cock, ἕως ἐβόησεν ἀ. Batr. 192, cf. Pi. O. 12.14, Simon. 80 B, A. Ag. 1671, Eu. 861, Herod. 4.12, etc.; later Prose, Arist. Fr. 347, PTeb. 140 (i B. C.) LXX Pr. 24.66 (30.31), Ev.Matt. 26.34, al., IG 3.77: metaph., of a trumpeter, κοινὸς Ἀθηναίων ἀ. Demad. Fr. 4; of a flute, Ion Trag. 39.

2 yellow rattle, Rhinanthus major

ἀλέκτορος λόφος yellow rattle, Rhinanthus major, Plin. HN 27.40.

II husband, consort

husband, consort, Tz. ad Lyc. 1094, and so perh. in B. 4.8, S. Fr. 851. (Perh., like ἀκοίτης, ἄλοχος, from ἀ- copul., λέκτρον).

In the wild

ἀλέκτωρ · alektōr Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1671
ἀλεκτόρων · alektorōn Aeschylus, Eumenides 858–863
ἀλέκτορα · alektora Aristophanes, Clouds 850 (DIORISIS sentence 684)
ἀλέκτορα · alektora Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 500)
ἀλέκτωρ · alektōr Aristophanes, Wasps 1490 (DIORISIS sentence 1085)
ἀλέκτορ · alektor Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.2 (DIORISIS sentence 5031)

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