The corpus record

ἄλοχος

alochos · ἡ

partner of oneʼs bed, wife

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Where it lives

Shield of Heracles 3 · 9.27/10k
Electra 5 · 6.61/10k
Trojan Women 4 · 5.65/10k
Odyssey 49 · 5.64/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 5 · 5.6/10k
Iliad 60 · 5.38/10k
Helen 5 · 5.11/10k
Orestes 5 · 5.1/10k
Suppliant Maidens 2 · 4.15/10k
Suppliants 2 · 2.84/10k
Heracles 2 · 2.56/10k
Phoenissae 2 · 2.07/10k

Densest 12 of 28 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ἄλοχος · alochos — LSJ

partner of oneʼs bed, wife

partner of oneʼs bed, wife, Il. 1.114, Od. 3.403, al., A. Pers. 63, S. OT 181, E. Fr. 543, etc., cf. Arist. Pol. 1253b7; ἄλοχον εἰς δόμους ἄγειν Theodect. 13.

2 leman, concubine

leman, concubine, Il. 9.336, Od. 4.623.

II unwedded

(ἀ- priv.) unwedded, ἄ. οὖσα τὴν λοχείαν εἴληχε, of Artemis, Pl. Tht. 149b, cf. Porph. ad Il. 11.155.

In the wild

ἄλοχον · alochon Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1498–1499
ἄλοχοί · alochoi Aeschylus, Persians 59–64
ἀλόχου · alochou Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 58–64
ἄλοχος · alochos Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 302
ἀλόχους · alochous Aristophanes, Frogs 1050–1051
ἄλοχον · alochon Aristophanes, Lysistrata 1279 (DIORISIS sentence 978)

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Where it came from

Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. ἄλοχος (scan p. 121; entry #391).

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