The corpus record

ἐδωδή

edode · ἡ

food, meat, victuals

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Where it lives

Works and Days 1 · 1.73/10k
Hiero 1 · 1.68/10k
Epinomis 1 · 1.59/10k
De Sensu et Sensibilibus 1 · 1.28/10k
Odyssey 8 · 0.92/10k
Phaedrus 1 · 0.6/10k
Statesman 1 · 0.59/10k
Philebus 1 · 0.57/10k
Cratylus 1 · 0.56/10k
Republic 5 · 0.56/10k
Iliad 4 · 0.36/10k
Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

food, meat, victuals

food, meat, victuals, Il. 19.167, Od. 3.70, Hp. Acut. 47, X. Hier. 1.19, etc.; ἐ. καὶ πόσις Pl. Lg. 782e, cf. R. 350a, al.: pl., τῶν . . περὶ ἐδωδὰς ἡδονῶν ib. 389e, cf. 519b.

2 forage, fodder

forage, fodder for cattle, Il. 8.504.

3 bait

bait for fish, Theoc. 21.43.

II act of eating

act of eating, ὀδόντας ἔχει . . ἐδωδῆς χάριν Arist. PA 683a4; τῇ ἐ. τοῦ βοὸς [χαίρει] ὁ λέων Id. EN 1118a20; πουλύποδος Jul. Or. 6.181a, al.

2 meal

meal, ἐπὶ μιᾶς ἐ. Arist. HA 596a4.

3 feeding

[ἀετὸς] ἀχθόμενος τῇ ἐ. wearied with feeding the young birds, ib. 563a22.

In the wild

ἐδωδὴν · edōdēn Aristotle, De Sensu et Sensibilibus (DIORISIS sentence 151)
ἐδωδῇ · edōdēi Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1118a (DIORISIS sentence 1002)
ἐδωδὴν · edōdēn Aristotle, Politics 1253a (DIORISIS sentence 53)
ἐδωδῆς · edōdēs Works and Days 592–596
ἐδωδῇ · edōdēi Iliad 17.225
ἐδωδῆς · edōdēs Iliad 19.167

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Where it came from

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