The corpus record

κηκίω

kekio

gush, bubble forth

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Where it lives

Philoctetes 2 · 2.27/10k
Discourses 2 · 0.27/10k
Odyssey 2 · 0.23/10k

What it meant

κηκίω · kēkiō — LSJ

gush, bubble forth, gushed, bubble with, send forth, ooze

gush, bubble forth, θάλασσα . . κήκῐε πολλὴ ἂν στόμα τε ῥῖνάς τε much brine gushed up through his mouth, Od. 5.455, cf. A.R. 1.542; ἐκ βυθοῦ κηκῖον αἷμα S. Ph. 784: c. acc. cogn., bubble with, send forth, κήκιε πόντος ἀϋτμήν A.R. 4.929:—Med., ooze, αἱμάδα κηκιομέναν ἑλκέων S. Ph. 697. [ῐ Ep.: ῑ S.ll.cc.]

In the wild

κακίων · kakiōn Epictetus, Discourses 3.11 (DIORISIS sentence 4414)
κακίων · kakiōn Epictetus, Discourses 3.11 (DIORISIS sentence 4411)
κακίων · kakiōn Odyssey 14.56
κήκιε · kēkie Odyssey 5.455
κηκιομέναν · kēkiomenan Sophocles, Philoctetes 696–700
κηκῖον · kēkion Sophocles, Philoctetes 783–784

Where it came from

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