The corpus record

ὀγκ-ώδης

ogkodes1

swelling, rounded

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Where it lives

On the Art of Horsemanship 1 · 1.44/10k
On Hunting 1 · 1.1/10k
Meno 1 · 1.02/10k
Ars Poetica 1 · 0.99/10k

What it meant

ὀγκ-ώδης · onk-ōdēs — LSJ

swelling, rounded

swelling, rounded, πλευρὰ ἡ . . πρὸς τὴν γαστέρα -εστέρα, of a horse, X. Eq. 1.12 ; μέρος τι ὀ. (sc. τοῦ οἰσοφάγου) Arist. PA 674b24.

2 bulky

bulky, σώματα ὀ., of birds, ib. 694a11, cf. GA 749b32 (Comp.).

II puffed up, weightiest, bombastic, turgidity

metaph., puffed up, Pl. Men. 90a ; τὸ ἡρωικὸν . . ὀγκωδέστατον τῶν μέτρων weightiest, Arist. Po. 1459b35 ; ὀ. ποιήματα bombastic, Phld. Po. 5.5 ; τὸ ὀ. turgidity, D.H. Din. 7, Heraclid. Pont. ap. Ath. 4.624d.

In the wild

ὀγκωδέστατον · onkōdestaton Aristotle, Ars Poetica 24
ὀγκώδης · onkōdēs Plato, Meno 90
ὀγκώδεις · onkōdeis Xenophon, On Hunting 5.30 (DIORISIS sentence 214)
ὀγκωδεστέρα · onkōdestera Xenophon, On the Art of Horsemanship 1.12 (DIORISIS sentence 45)

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.

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