The corpus record

δί-κροος

dikroos

forked, cloven

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Where it lives

On Hunting 2 · 2.2/10k
Peace 1 · 1.26/10k
Timaeus 1 · 0.42/10k

What it meant

1. δίκροος · dikroos — Beekes

δίκροος [adj.] ‘forked, cloven’ (ΤΑ; cf. Ilberg Arch. Κὶ Pap. 4, 281f.). «1Ε *(dui)-kr-ou-o- ‘two-horned’.> *VAR Gen. δίκρους. Also δικρόος, gen. δικροῦς, or (with hyphaeresis) Sixpos. *ETYM δίκροος goes back to *Si-xpof-o¢ “‘two-horned’, from &- (see » δίς) and a word for ‘horn’. Nussbaum 1986: 2-18, assumes that there were forms without laryngeal (e.g. Skt. srriga-, κάρνος H.) to explain the discrepancy between … — [Beekes, s.v. δίκροος, p. 382]

2. δίκροος · dikroos — Frisk

δίκροος, δύερους (δικρόος, δικροῦς, mit Hyphärese δίκρος) "gabelig? (ion. att.; vgl. IIberg Arch. f. Pap. 4, 281). Keine Ableitungen. — Wahrscheinlich aus *öi-xg0F-05, eig. "zweihörnig’, von öt- (s. δίς) und einem Wort für ‘Horn’, das auch in »ega[F]-os ‘gehörnt’, lat. cerv-us ‘Hirsch’, aw. sra- ‘Horn’ usw. vorliegt, aber sich nicht genau rekonstruieren läßt. S. außer κεραός auch κέρας. — [Frisk, s.v. δίκροος, p. 426]

3. δί-κροος · di-kroos — LSJ

forked, cloven, bifurcation

forked, cloven, γλώσσημα A. Fr. 152, cf. X. Cyn. 10.7; ξύλον Timocl. 9.6; χηλή Arist. HA 590b25, etc.; of a serpentʼs tongue, Id. PA 660b6, al.; of the womb, in selachians, Id. HA 511a6; of muscles and tendons, Gal. 2.369; δίκρα ῥίζα Thphr. HP 9.11.3; δικροῖς ἐώθουν τὴν θεὸν—κεκράγμασιν (παρὰ προσδοκίαν for ξύλοις) Ar. Pax 637; δίκρουν or δικροῦν, τό, bifurcation, Hp. Coac. 225, cf. Pl. Ti. 78b; also δικρόα, ἡ, X. Cyn. 9.19, Thphr. HP 2.6.9.

In the wild

δικροῖς · dikrois Aristophanes, Peace 635 (DIORISIS sentence 454)
δίκρουν · dikroun Plato, Timaeus 78 (DIORISIS sentence 738)
δίκρα · dikra Xenophon, On Hunting 10.7 (DIORISIS sentence 441)
δίκρα · dikra Xenophon, On Hunting 2.7 (DIORISIS sentence 56)

Where it came from

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