The corpus record

δακρυόεις

dakruoeis

tearful, through tears, causing tears

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Where it lives

Helen 3 · 3.07/10k
Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
Iliad 14 · 1.26/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k
Phoenissae 1 · 1.04/10k
Odyssey 4 · 0.46/10k

What it meant

δακρυό-εις · dakryo-eis — LSJ

1 tearful, through tears

of persons, tearful, Il. 21.506, etc.; γόος Od. 24.323; δακρυόεν γελάσασα smiling through tears, Il. 6.484.

2 causing tears

of things, causing tears, πόλεμος, ἄλγεα, θάνατος, 5.737, Hes. Th. 227, etc.

In the wild

δακρυόεσσαν · dakryoessan Euripides, Helen 1 (DIORISIS sentence 745)
δακρυόεντα · dakryoenta Euripides, Helen 1 (DIORISIS sentence 745)
δακρυόεσσαν · dakryoessan Euripides, Helen (DIORISIS sentence 148)
δακρυόεν · dakryoen Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 790 (DIORISIS sentence 450)
δακρυόεσςʼ · dakryoessʼ Euripides, Phoenissae *)ioka/sth (DIORISIS sentence 137)
δακρυόεντα · dakryoenta Theogony 226–232

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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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