The corpus record

ἁλμῠρ-ός

almuros

salt, briny

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Where it lives

De Sensu et Sensibilibus 5 · 6.4/10k
Trojan Women 3 · 4.24/10k
Theogony 2 · 2.9/10k
De aere aquis et locis 2 · 2.7/10k
Timaeus 6 · 2.54/10k
Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
Clouds 1 · 1.04/10k
Odyssey 8 · 0.92/10k
Phaedrus 1 · 0.6/10k
Theaetetus 1 · 0.44/10k
Jeremias 1 · 0.36/10k
Enneads 3 · 0.14/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ἁλμῠρ-ός · halmyr-os — LSJ

salt, briny, salt sea

salt, briny, Hom. only in Od., and always in phrase ἁ. ὕδωρ salt sea-water, 4.511, etc.; πόντος Hes. Th. 107, Alc. 26; θάλασσα Sapph. 96.10 L.-P.; καθʼ ἁ. ἅλα Epich. 53, E. Tr. 76; βένθεα Pi. O. 7.57; ποταμός, of the Hellespont, Hdt. 7.35.

2 salt, brackish

in Prose, of taste, salt, γίνεται τὸ στόμα ἁ. Hp. Acut.(Sp.) 44 (not found); ὄψα ἀ. X. Cyr. 6.2.31, cf. Hp. Vict. 1.56; αἷμα Pl. Ti. 84a s.v.l.; of drinking-water, brackish, Th. 4.26; of soil, Thphr. CP 6.10.1, LXX Je. 17.6; opp. μῶρος (insipid), Com.Adesp. 596.

3 bitter, distasteful, bitterly

metaph., bitter, distasteful, γειτόνημα Alcm. 116, cf. Pl. Lg. 705a; ἀκοή Phdr. 243d; λόγοι Ath. 3.121e; ἁλμυρὰ κλαίειν weep bitterly, Theoc. 23.34; ἁλμυρὸν καταπτύσαι Cerc. 19.37.

b piquant

piquant, ἁ. καὶ δριμύ Plu. QConv. 2.685e.

In the wild

ἁλμυρᾶς · halmyras Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 435)
ἁλμυρὸν · halmyron Aristotle, De Sensu et Sensibilibus (DIORISIS sentence 103)
ἁλμυρῷ · halmyrōi Aristotle, De Sensu et Sensibilibus (DIORISIS sentence 105)
ἁλμυρὸν · halmyron Aristotle, De Sensu et Sensibilibus (DIORISIS sentence 106)
ἁλμυρὸν · halmyron Aristotle, De Sensu et Sensibilibus (DIORISIS sentence 108)
ἁλμυρῶν · halmyrōn Aristotle, De Sensu et Sensibilibus (DIORISIS sentence 92)

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