The corpus record

βάραθρον

barathron · τό

gulf, pit, a cleft, ruin, perdition

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Where it lives

Phaedo 2 · 0.92/10k
Gorgias 1 · 0.38/10k
Isaias 1 · 0.38/10k
Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k
Discourses 1 · 0.13/10k
Odyssey 1 · 0.12/10k
Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant — LSJ

gulf, pit, a cleft

gulf, pit, Arist. Pr. 947a19; esp. at Athens, a cleft into which criminals were thrown, Hdt. 7.133, Ar. Nu. 1450, Com.Adesp. 24.10 D., Pl. Grg. 516c, AB 219, Sch. Ar. Pl. 431.

2 ruin, perdition

metaph., ἐν τῷ β. χειμάζειν D. 8.45; ruin, perdition, Luc. Am. 5, etc.; name of a courtesan, Theophil.Com. 11.

II ornament

a womanʼs ornament, Ar. Fr. 320.8.

III

= βράθυ, f.l. for βόρατον, Dsc. 1.76. (Root gṷer ‘devour’, cf. βορά.)

In the wild

βάραθρον · barathron Epictetus, Discourses 1.13 (DIORISIS sentence 734)
βάραθρον · barathron Herodotus, Histories 7.133.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7794)
βέρεθρον · berethron Iliad 8.14
βερέθρου · berethrou Odyssey 12.94
βάραθρον · barathron Plato, Gorgias 516
βέρεθρον · berethron Plato, Phaedo 112 (DIORISIS sentence 1153)

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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. βάραθρον (scan p. 247; entry #1055).
Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. βάραθρον (scan p. 178; entry #1193).

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