The corpus record

ὀδῠν-ηρός

oduneros

painful, distressing

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Where it lives

Lamentationes 1 · 4.29/10k
Regnorum III 2 · 1.05/10k
Phoenissae 1 · 1.04/10k
Ars Poetica 1 · 0.99/10k
Jeremias 2 · 0.72/10k
Rhetoric 2 · 0.47/10k
Gorgias 1 · 0.38/10k
Discourses 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

ὀδῠν-ηρός · odyn-ēros — LSJ

painful

painful, ἕλκος Pi. P. 2.91, cf. Ar. Ach. 231 ; -ότατα πάθη Pl. Grg. 525c ; -ότατον τραῦμα Jul. Gal. 160d. Adv. -ρῶς Arist. HA 609b25 : Comp. -ότερον Plu. VOrat. 2.837a.

2 distressing

distressing, γῆρας Mimn. 1.5 ; πᾶς . . ὀ. βίος ἀνθρώπων E. Hipp. 189 (anap.); -ότερος βίοτος Ar. Pl. 526 ; ὀ. πλοῦτος E. Ph. 566, cf. Phld. Lib p.15 O. ; ὀδυνηρόν ἐστιν c. inf., Men. 655.

In the wild

ὀδυνηρά · odynēra Aristotle, Ars Poetica 11
ὀδυνηρὰ · odynēra Aristotle, Rhetoric 2
ὀδυνηρῶν · odynērōn Aristotle, Rhetoric 2
ὀδυνηρὸν · odynēron Epictetus, Discourses 1.6 (DIORISIS sentence 333)
ὀδυνηρὸς · odynēros Euripides, Phoenissae *)ioka/sth (DIORISIS sentence 294)
ὀδυνηρότατα · odynērotata Plato, Gorgias 525

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Where it came from

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