eatable, good for food, eatables, meats
eatable, good for food, ζῷον Arist. Pol. 1324b41; ἐδεστά eatables, meats, E. Fr. 472.19, Pl. Ti. 72e: sg., Call. Fr. 128.
II eaten, consumed
eaten, S. Ant. 206; consumed, ἐξ αὑτοῦ Id. Tr. 677.
The corpus record
ἐδεσ-τός
edestos
eatable, good for food
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Where it lives
- Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k
- Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
- Politics 1 · 0.15/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ἐδεστὸν · edeston Aristotle, Politics 1324b (DIORISIS sentence 2528)
- ἐδεστὸν · edeston Sophocles, Antigone 198–206
- ἐδεστὸν · edeston Sophocles, Trachiniae 674–677
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.