The corpus record

μισθ-ωτός

misthotos

hired, hireling, hired servant, mercenaries

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Where it lives

Apollodorus Against Timotheus 2 · 4.63/10k
Judith 3 · 3.42/10k
Third Philippic 1 · 2.35/10k
Leviticus 4 · 2.14/10k
On the Crown 3 · 1.54/10k
Job 2 · 1.5/10k
Lysis 1 · 1.44/10k
John 2 · 1.31/10k
On the Peace 1 · 1.26/10k
Birds 1 · 0.94/10k
Exodus 2 · 0.84/10k
Isaias 2 · 0.76/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

μισθ-ωτός · misth-ōtos — LSJ

hired

hired, ἐπίκουροι Hdt. 3.45, Pl. R. 419a; ἄνθρωποι Phld. Mus. p.67 K.

II hireling, hired servant, mercenaries

Subst., hireling, hired servant, Ar. Av. 1152, Pl. Lg. 918b, IG 2(2).1672.28, Ev.Marc. 1.20, etc.: freq. of soldiers, mercenaries, Hdt. 1.61, Th. 5.6; of a spy or agent, D. 18.38; μ. Φιλίππου ib. 52; καλὸς κἀγαθὸς καὶ δίκαιος μ. ἐκείνῳ Id. 19.110.

In the wild

μισθωτοὺς · misthōtous Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 846)
μισθωτοὶ · misthōtoi Demosthenes, Apollodorus Against Timotheus 51 (DIORISIS sentence 104)
μισθωτοί · misthōtoi Demosthenes, Apollodorus Against Timotheus 52 (DIORISIS sentence 106)
μισθωτός · misthōtos Demosthenes, On the Crown 38 (DIORISIS sentence 107)
μισθωτὸν · misthōton Demosthenes, On the Crown 52 (DIORISIS sentence 150)
μισθωτὸς · misthōtos Demosthenes, On the Crown 52 (DIORISIS sentence 152)

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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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