1. ὀδύρομαι · odyromai — Beekes
The corpus record
ὀδύρομαι
oduromai
to wail loudly, lament, grieve, mourn, bewail
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Where it lives
- Virtues and Vices 1 · 6.74/10k
- Odyssey 39 · 4.49/10k
- Ajax 2 · 2.54/10k
- Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
- Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
- Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
- Iliad 17 · 1.52/10k
- Suppliants 1 · 1.42/10k
- Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
- Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k
- Apology 1 · 1.14/10k
- Oedipus Tyrannus 1 · 1.08/10k
Densest 12 of 24 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. ὀδύρομαι · odyromai — Chantraine
3. ὀδύρομαι · odyromai — Frisk
4. ὀδύρ-ομαι · odyr-omai — LSJ
lament, bewail, a person or thing :
c. acc. pers., ὀδυρομένη φίλα τέκνα Il. 2.315 ; Ἕκτορα δάκρυ χέοντες ὀδύροντο 24.714, cf. S. OC 1439, Ant. 693 : less freq. c. acc. rei, ὁ δʼ ὀδύρετο πατρίδα γαῖαν mourned for it, i.e. for the want of it, Od. 13.219 ; so νόστον ὀ. 5.153, 13.379 ; προπηλακίσεις Pl. R. 329b ; δυστυχίας Isoc. 4.169 ; πάθη D. 18.41 ; οὐκ ὠδύραντο . . τὴν προκαταστροφήν Epicur. Sent. 40.
c. gen. pers., mourn for, for the sake of . . , ὡς δὲ πατὴρ οὗ παιδὸς ὀ. Il. 23.222, cf. 22.424, Od. 4.104, etc. ; ὑπέρ τινος Pl. R. 387d ; ἐπὶ πᾶσι Arist. VV 1251b21.
ὀ. τινί wail or lament to or before, ἐξελθὼν λαιοῖσιν ὀ. Od. 4.740 ; ἀλλήλοισιν ὀδύρονται wail aloud one to another, Il. 2.290.
abs., wail, mourn, freq. in Hom., in part., -όμενος στεναχίζω Od. 9.13 ; στοναχῇ τε γόῳ τε ἧσται ὀ. 16.145 ; ὀ. κατὰ θυμόν 18.203 ; τίταῦτʼ ὀδύρομαι ; why mourn I thus? E. Andr. 397 (where Pors. restores ταῦτα δύρομαι for the caesura) ; θρηνοῦντός τε μου καὶ ὀδυρομένου Pl. Ap. 38d, cf. Phld. Rh. 1.381 S., etc.
In the wild
- δυρόμενοι · dyromenoi Aeschylus, Persians 579–583
- δύρεσθʼ · dyresthʼ Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 273–275
- ὀδύρεσθαι · odyresthai Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 656–657
- ὀδυρόμενος · odyromenos Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1123a (DIORISIS sentence 1249)
- ὀδύρεσθαι · odyresthai Aristotle, Virtues and Vices (DIORISIS sentence 67)
- ὠδύραντο · ōdyranto Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 9380)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. ὀδύρομαι (scan p. 1099; entry #4435).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ὀδύρομαι (scan p. 792; entry #5768).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ὀδύρομαι (scan p. 1323; entry #4175).