The corpus record

μελοποι-ός

melopoios · ὁ

maker of songs, lyric poet

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Where it lives

Ion 3 · 7.48/10k
Frogs 2 · 2.2/10k
Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
Thesmophoriazusae 1 · 1.42/10k
Protagoras 1 · 0.56/10k

What it meant

μελοποι-ός · melopoi-os — LSJ

maker of songs, lyric poet

maker of songs, lyric poet, Ar. Ra. 1250, Pl. Prt. 326a, etc.; ὁ Θηβαῖος μ., of Pindar, Ath. 1.3c; ἡ Λεσβία μ., of Sappho, Luc. Im. 18.

II tuneful

as Adj., generally, tuneful, μέριμνα E. Rh. 550 (lyr.).

In the wild

μελοποιὸν · melopoion Aristophanes, Frogs 1249–1250
μελοποιῶν · melopoiōn Aristophanes, Frogs 1325–1328
μελοποιῶν · melopoiōn Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 40 (DIORISIS sentence 45)
μελοποιὸν · melopoion Euripides, Rhesus 1.547 (DIORISIS sentence 314)
μελοποιοὶ · melopoioi Plato, Ion 534
μελοποιοὶ · melopoioi Plato, Ion 534

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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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