The corpus record

ἀλλό-θροος

allothroos

speaking a strange tongue

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Where it lives

Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
Philoctetes 1 · 1.14/10k
Odyssey 4 · 0.46/10k
Histories 2 · 0.11/10k

What it meant

ἀλλό-θροος · allo-throos — LSJ

speaking a strange tongue, foreign, strange, alien

speaking a strange tongue, ἐπʼ ἀλλοθρόους ἀνθρώπους, κατʼ ἀλλοθρόους ἀνθρ., Od. 1.183, 3.302, 15.453: generally, foreign, στρατός Hdt. 1.78 ; Αἴγυπτος Id. 3.11 ; πόλις A. Ag. 1200 ; strange, alien, γνώμη S. Tr. 844.—Not in Att. Prose.

In the wild

ἀλλόθρουν · allothroun Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1199–1201
ἀλλοθρόοις · allothroois Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 972–973
ἀλλόθροον · allothroon Herodotus, Histories 1.78.3 (DIORISIS sentence 538)
ἀλλόθροον · allothroon Herodotus, Histories 3.11.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2926)
ἀλλοθρόους · allothroous Odyssey 1.183
ἀλλοθρόων · allothroōn Odyssey 14.43

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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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