The corpus record

διάστροφ-ος

diastrophos

twisted, distorted

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Where it lives

Bacchae 2 · 2.66/10k
Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k
Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k
Ajax 1 · 1.27/10k
Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

διάστροφ-ος · diastroph-os — LSJ

twisted, distorted, incorrectly

twisted, distorted, δ. καὶ ἔμπηρα καὶ ἀπόπληκτα Hdt. 1.167; μορφὴ καὶ φρένες δ. A. Pr. 673, cf. S. Aj. 447; ὀφθαλμός Id. Tr. 794; δ. κόρας ἑλίσσουσʼ E. Ba. 1122, cf. 1166 (lyr.); of a person, δ. τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς, τὸ σῶμα, Ath. 8.339f, Luc. Ind. 7. Adv. -φως incorrectly, λέγειν S.E. M. 1.152.

In the wild

διάστροφοι · diastrophoi Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 673–679
διαστρόφους · diastrophous Euripides, Bacchae 1122–1124
διαστρόφοις · diastrophois Euripides, Bacchae 1165–1167
διαστρόφους · diastrophous Euripides, Heracles 867–868
διάστροφα · diastropha Herodotus, Histories 1.167.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1177)
διάστροφα · diastropha Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 1.17.4 (DIORISIS sentence 103)

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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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