The corpus record

ἔδεσμα

edesma · τό

meat, food

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Where it lives

Siracides 5 · 2.71/10k
Genesis 6 · 2/10k
Hiero 1 · 1.68/10k
Sapientia Salomonis 1 · 1.45/10k
Proverbia 1 · 0.9/10k
Regnorum I 1 · 0.54/10k
Timaeus 1 · 0.42/10k
Eudemian Ethics 1 · 0.38/10k
Psalmi 1 · 0.29/10k
Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
Republic 1 · 0.11/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant — LSJ

meat, food, eatables, meats

meat, food, Pl. Ti. 73a, Antiph. 26.10: pl., eatables, meats, Batr. 31, X. Hier. 1.23, Pl. R. 559b, Antiph. 82.1, Porph. Abst. 1.55: metaph., οὐ γὰρ ἡδύσματι χρῆται ἀλλʼ ὡς ἐδέσματι τοῖς ἐπιθέτοις Arist. Rh. 1406a19:—Dim. ἐδεσμάτιον, τό, Procl.ad Hes. Op. 41.

In the wild

ἐδέσμασιν · edesmasin Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 7
ἐδέσματι · edesmati Aristotle, Rhetoric 3
ἔδεσμά · edesma Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.10 (DIORISIS sentence 978)
ἐδεσμάτων · edesmatōn Plato, Republic 8.559 (DIORISIS sentence 5049)
ἐδέσματός · edesmatos Plato, Timaeus 73 (DIORISIS sentence 684)
ἐδέσματα · edesmata Septuaginta, Genesis 27

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Where it came from

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