The corpus record

γᾰμέτ-ης

gametes · ὁ

husband, spouse

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Where it lives

Suppliants 2 · 2.84/10k
Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k
Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant — LSJ

husband, spouse, a wife

husband, spouse, A. Pr. 897 (lyr.), E. Tr. 311 (lyr.), Euph. 107.3; poet. word used by X. Cyr. 4.6.3, and late, PLond. 5.1711.53 (vi A. D.); Dor. gen. γαμέτα E. Supp. 998 (lyr.):— fem. γᾰμέτις, ιδος, a wife, dub. in AP 5.179 (Mel.), cf. IPE 2.298.10 (Panticapaeum).

In the wild

γαμέτᾳ · gametai Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 897
γαμέτα · gameta Euripides, Suppliants 1.990 (DIORISIS sentence 575)
γαμέτας · gametas Euripides, Suppliants 1 (DIORISIS sentence 584)
γαμέτας · gametas Euripides, Trojan Women (DIORISIS sentence 170)
γαμέτην · gametēn Xenophon, Cyropaedia 4.6.3 (DIORISIS sentence 2235)

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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