The corpus record

ἐχθο-δοπός

echthodopos

hateful

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Where it lives

Ajax 1 · 1.27/10k
Philoctetes 1 · 1.14/10k
Laws 1 · 0.1/10k

What it meant — LSJ

hateful

hateful, φώς S. Ph. 1137 (lyr.); πόλεμος Ar. Ach. 226 (lyr.); τοῖα . . ἀνεστέναζες . . ἐχθοδόπʼ Ἀτρείδαις S. Aj. 931 (lyr.); τῆς ὁδοῦ ἐχθοδοποῦ γεγονυίας πολλοῖς, ἴσως δὲ . . ἑτέροις προσφιλοῦς Pl. Lg. 810d; of a drug, Pl.Com. 196; ἐ. ὄμματα A.R. 4.1669. (Perh. by assimilation fr. ἐχθοδαπός ‘foreign’, ‘hostile’ (q.v.).)

In the wild

ἐχθοδοποῦ · echthodopou Plato, Laws 810
ἐχθοδόπʼ · echthodopʼ Sophocles, Ajax 930–933
ἐχθοδοπόν · echthodopon Sophocles, Philoctetes 1128–1139

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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