The corpus record

μεταβολ-εύς

metaboleus · ὁ

one who exchanges

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Where it lives

De aere aquis et locis 7 · 9.45/10k
Fragments 2 · 5.02/10k
De Insomniis 1 · 4.19/10k
Concerning the Team of Horses 1 · 3.45/10k
Aegineticus 1 · 3.44/10k
Archidamus 2 · 3.27/10k
Categories 3 · 2.99/10k
Metaphysics 23 · 2.93/10k
Helen 1 · 2.68/10k
Nicocles or the Cyprians 1 · 2.68/10k
Meditations 7 · 2.41/10k
Evagoras 1 · 2.18/10k

Densest 12 of 30 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

μεταβολ-εύς · metabol-eus — LSJ

one who exchanges, barters, trafficker, huckster

one who exchanges or barters, trafficker, huckster, κάπηλος, παλιγκάπηλος, μεταβολεύς D. 25.46, cf. Sch. Ar. Pl. 1156.

II interpreter, paraphraser

interpreter, paraphraser, τῶν λέξεων Eust. 1347.40.

In the wild

μεταβολῆι · metabolēi Aristotle, Categories (DIORISIS sentence 246)
μεταβολῆς · metabolēs Aristotle, Categories (DIORISIS sentence 247)
μεταβολῆς · metabolēs Aristotle, Categories (DIORISIS sentence 247)
μεταβολῆς · metabolēs Aristotle, De Insomniis (DIORISIS sentence 76)
μεταβολῆς · metabolēs Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 59)
μεταβολῆς · metabolēs Aristotle, Metaphysics book 11 (DIORISIS sentence 3194)

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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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