The corpus record

ὄβριμος

obrimos

strong, mighty

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Where it lives

Works and Days 2 · 3.47/10k
Shield of Heracles 1 · 3.09/10k
Theogony 2 · 2.9/10k
Iliad 25 · 2.24/10k
Orestes 2 · 2.04/10k
Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
Ion 1 · 1.09/10k
Odyssey 3 · 0.35/10k

What it meant — LSJ

strong, mighty, mightily, of might

strong, mighty, epith. of Ares, Il. 5.845, al. ; of Achilles, 19.408 ; of Hector, 8.473 ; also of things, ὄ. ἔγχος 3.357, etc. ; ἄχθος Od. 9.233 ; θυρεός, λίθος, ib. 241, 305 ; ὕδωρ Il. 4.453 ; ἐβρόντησε ὄβριμον he thundered mightily, Hes. Th. 839 ; ὄ. ἔργα deeds of might, Tyrt. 11.27.—Ep. word, rare in Trag., ἄνδρες ὄ. A. Th. 794 ; μῖσος ὄ. Id. Ag. 1411 (lyr.) ; Ἰδαία μᾶτερ ὀ. E. l.c. —The form ὄμβριμος is a freq. f.l., as in Il. 5.845, al., Pi. O. 4.8, P. 9.27, A. Th. l.c. (Cf. βριμός· μέγας,

In the wild

ὄβριμον · obrimon Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1410–1411
ὀβρίμων · obrimōn Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 794
ὄβριμον · obrimon Euripides, Ion 2 (DIORISIS sentence 79)
ὀβρίμα · obrima Euripides, Orestes (DIORISIS sentence 975)
ὀβρίμα · obrima Euripides, Orestes (DIORISIS sentence 975)
ὄβριμον · obrimon Shield of Heracles 135–138

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Where it came from

Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. ὄβριμος (scan p. 1094; entry #4419).
Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ὄβριμος (scan p. 789; entry #5748).
Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ὄβριμος (scan pp. 1317-1318; entry #4163).

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