The corpus record

βρῶσις

brosis · ἡ

meat, pasture, eating

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Where it lives

Habacuc 2 · 18.28/10k
Lamentationes 3 · 12.88/10k
Odae 3 · 7.38/10k
Malachias 1 · 7.2/10k
Colossians 1 · 6.46/10k
Shield of Heracles 1 · 3.09/10k
Genesis 8 · 2.66/10k
John 4 · 2.62/10k
2 Corinthians 1 · 2.23/10k
Hebrews 1 · 1.99/10k
Leviticus 3 · 1.6/10k
Job 2 · 1.5/10k

Densest 12 of 34 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

βρῶσις · brōsis — LSJ

meat

meat, opp. πόσις, Od. 15.490, cf. Hp. Acut. 28, X. Mem. 1.3.15, Pl. Lg. 783c: in pl., opp. πόσεις, Democr. 235; β. ἀναγκαία Th. 2.70.

2 pasture

pasture, προβάτων PLips. 118.15 (ii A. D.).

II eating

eating, παίδων Pl. R. 619c; ἐρινὸς ἀχρεῖος ὢν ἐς βρῶσιν S. Fr. 181.

2 taste, flavour

taste, flavour, Nic. Al. 377.

3 corrosion, rust, decay

corrosion, rust, Ev.Matt. 6.19; decay, Gal. 6.422 (pl.), 12.879.

In the wild

βρώσει · brōsei Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1118a (DIORISIS sentence 1001)
βρῶσις · brōsis Shield of Heracles 393–400
βρώσιος · brōsios Theogony 796–798
βρωτὺν · brōtyn Iliad 19.205
βρῶσις · brōsis Iliad 19.210
βρῶσίν · brōsin Odyssey 1.191

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Where it came from

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