1. ὀᾶ · oa
woe, woe!
woe, woe!, c. gen., A. Pers. 117, 122 (both lyr.).
The corpus record
ὀᾶ
oa1
woe, woe!
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Where it lives
- Persians 6 · 11.79/10k
What it meant — LSJ
2. ὄα · oa
service-tree, Sorbus domestica
service-tree, Sorbus domestica, Thphr., etc.: ὄα in Hsch., but codd. of Thphr. have ὄη in HP 2.2.10 ; ὄα in 2.7.7 ; ὄη in 3.12.9, 3.15.4, CP 3.1.4 ; οὔα in HP 3.6.5.
II sorb-apple, service-berry
its fruit was ὄον, τό, sorb-apple, or service-berry, which was split and pickled for use, Pl. Smp. 190d, Dsc. 1.120 :—in Pl. l.c. codd. have ὠϊά, ὠά, and in Dsc. οὖα, which latter form also occurs in Hp. Vict. 2.55, Thphr. HP 3.2.1, CP 2.8.2 ; ὄη τὸ δένδρον, ἧς ὁ καρπὸς ὄα καλεῖται, ὑπὸ δὲ τῶν πολλῶν οὖα Gal. 12.87.
In the wild
- ὀᾶ · oa Aeschylus, Persians 568–573
- ὀᾶ · oa Aeschylus, Persians 568–573
- ὀᾶ · oa Aeschylus, Persians 576–578
- ὀᾶ · oa Aeschylus, Persians 579–583
- ὀᾶ · oa Aeschylus, Persians 115–125
- ὀᾶ · oa Aeschylus, Persians 115–125
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.