The corpus record

κᾰκό-ξενος

kakoxenos

unfortunate in guests

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Where it lives

Odyssey 1 · 0.12/10k

What it meant

κᾰκό-ξενος · kako-xenos — LSJ

unfortunate in guests

unfortunate in guests, in Ep. Comp., οὔ τις σεῖο κακοξεινώτερος ἄλλος Od. 20.376.

II unfriendly to strangers, inhospitable

unfriendly to strangers, inhospitable, E. Alc. 558 (v.l. for ἐχθρόξενος), AP 7.699, Lyc. 1286: Comp., Σκυθῶν -ώτεροι Jul. Ep. 89b.

In the wild

κακοξεινώτερος · kakoxeinōteros Odyssey 20.376

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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