The corpus record

ἔχθος

echthos · τό

hate, hatred for, enmity

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Where it lives

Persians 2 · 3.93/10k
Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
Libation Bearers 1 · 1.86/10k
Lysis 1 · 1.44/10k
Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
Ajax 1 · 1.27/10k
Electra 1 · 1.15/10k
Philoctetes 1 · 1.14/10k
Phoenissae 1 · 1.04/10k
Orestes 1 · 1.02/10k
History 9 · 0.6/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

1. ἔχθος · echthos

hate, hatred for, enmity

hate, Διὸς ἔχθος ἀλευάμενος Od. 9.277: and in pl., ἐχθεα λυγρά Il. 3.416, cf. Pi. P. 2.55; ἴδια, κοινὰ ἔχθεα, Hdt. 3.82; κατὰ ἔχθος τινός hatred for one, Id. 9.15, cf. Th. 1.103, 7.57; ἔχθει c. gen., A. Supp. 332, Th. 1.95; ἐς ἔχθεα ἀπικνέεσθαί τινι to incur his enmity, Hdt. 3.82; εἰς ἔχθος ἐλθεῖν τινι E. Ph. 879; ὑπʼ ἔχθους Plu. Publ. 9.

II object of, hate

ὦ πλεῖστον ἔ. object of direst hate, A. Pers. 284.—In Prose ἔχθρα is more freq.

2. ἐχθός · echthos

outside

= ἐκτός, outside, τᾶς ϝοικίας Schwyzer 323 C 35 (Delph., iv B.C.).

2 except

except, προξένω ib. 363.11 (Locr., V B.C.).

In the wild

ἔχθος · echthos Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 101
ἔχθος · echthos Aeschylus, Persians 284
ἐχθίων · echthiōn Aeschylus, Persians 438
ἔχθος · echthos Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 937–938
ἔχθει · echthei Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 330–332
ἔχθος · echthos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.2 (DIORISIS sentence 398)

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Where it came from

Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. ἔχθος (scan pp. 535-536; entry #2367).
Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ἔχθος (scan p. 405; entry #2876).

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