The corpus record

κᾰκό-σῑτος

kakositos

eating badly

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Where it lives

Republic 1 · 0.11/10k

What it meant

κᾰκό-σῑτος · kako-sitos — LSJ

eating badly, having a poor appetite, fastidious

eating badly, i.e. having a poor appetite, fastidious, Hp. Steril. 215, Eub. 17; ὁ περὶ τὰ σιτία δυσχερής Pl. R. 475c, Ael. NA 3.45, cf. Arr. Cyn. 8.2.

2 fastidious

metaph., fastidious, πρὸς Κύπριν οὐ κ. (of Priapus), Ἀρχ.Δελτ. 2 App. 47 (Thyrrheum).

In the wild

κακόσιτον · kakositon Plato, Republic 5.475 (DIORISIS sentence 3418)

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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