The corpus record

καταχθόνιος

katachthonios

subterranean

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Where it lives

Philippians 1 · 6.26/10k
Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

καταχθόν-ιος · katachthon-ios — LSJ

subterranean, Veiouis

subterranean, Ζεὺς καταχθόνιος, i.e. Pluto, Il. 9.457 (but Ζεὺς κ., = Veiouis, D.H. 2.10); of Pluto, Demeter, Persephone, and the Erinyes, IG 3.1423; δαίμονες κ. Hierocl. in CA i p.419 M.; = Lat. Di Manes, AP 7.333; κ. θεοί, = Lat. Di Manes, freq. in sepulchral Inscrr., IG 14.1660, al.

In the wild

καταχθόνιος · katachthonios Iliad 9.457
καταχθονίων · katachthoniōn New Testament, Philippians 2.9 (DIORISIS sentence 21)

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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