The corpus record

κεράστης

kerastes1 · ὁ

horned, horned serpent, asp, Cerastes cornutus

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Where it lives

Ichneutae 1 · 5.82/10k
Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
Electra 1 · 1.15/10k
Proverbia 1 · 0.9/10k

What it meant

κεράστης · kerastēs — LSJ

horned

horned, ἔλαφος S. El. 568; κάνθαρος Id. Ichn. 300; of a ram, ὦ κεράστα E. Cyc. 52 (lyr.); Πάν Antip. Oxy. 662.49, Corn. ND 27; Σάτυροι Luc. Bacch. 1:—fem. κεραστίς, ίδος, of Io, A. Pr. 674.

II horned serpent, asp, Cerastes cornutus

as Subst., horned serpent or asp, Cerastes cornutus, Nic. Th. 258, LXX Pr. 23.32, D.S. 3.50, Ael. NA 1.57; οἱ κ. ὄφεις Call.Hist. 3.

2 pest which destroys fig-trees

pest which destroys fig-trees, Thphr. HP 4.14.5, 5.4.5.

In the wild

κεραστὶς · kerastis Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 673–679
κεράστου · kerastou Septuaginta, Proverbia 23 (DIORISIS sentence 518)
κεράστην · kerastēn Sophocles, Electra 566–569
κεράστης · kerastēs Sophocles, Ichneutae 308

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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