The corpus record

ὀδάξ

odax

by biting with the teeth

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Where it lives

Phoenissae 1 · 1.04/10k
Odyssey 4 · 0.46/10k
Iliad 5 · 0.45/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant — LSJ

by biting with the teeth, biting the lips, tooth, bite

by biting with the teeth, ὀ. ἕλον οὖδας, of men in the agonies of death, Il. 11.749, etc. ; so ὀ. λαζοίατο γαῖαν 2.418 ; γαῖαν ὀ. ἑλόντες E. Ph. 1423 ; also ὀ. ἐν χείλεσι φύντες biting the lips in smothered rage, Od. 1.381 : so in Com., ἀποδάκνειν ὀ. Cratin. 164 ; διατρώξομαι ὀ. τὸ δίκτυον Ar. V. 164 ; ὀ. ἔχεσθαι ib. 943 ; λαβέσθαι Id. Pl. 690:— if κυνὸς ἄγριον ὀδάξ be correct in Diog.Cyn. ap. D.L. 6.79, ὀδάξ must be taken either as tooth or as bite.

In the wild

ὀδάξ · odax Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.2 (DIORISIS sentence 5267)
ὀδὰξ · odax Euripides, Phoenissae *)/aggelos (DIORISIS sentence 831)
ὀδὰξ · odax Iliad 11.749
ὀδὰξ · odax Iliad 19.61
ὀδὰξ · odax Iliad 2.418
ὀδὰξ · odax Iliad 22.17

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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. ὀδάξ (scan p. 1097; entry #4428).
Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ὀδάξ (scan p. 790; entry #5757).
Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ὀδάξ (scan pp. 1320-1321; entry #4169).

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