The corpus record

ὄϊος

oios2

of a sheep

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What it meant

ὄϊος · oios — LSJ

of a sheep, ewe, more sheepish

of a sheep, γάλα ὄ. ewe-milk, Hp. Vict. 2.41 ; ὄϊον ἔριον Polem.Hist. 88 ; οἰὸς οἰότερον more sheepish than a sheep, Sophr. 122 (v. dub.). (In Hp. and Polem.Hist.ll.cc. ὄειος (like βόειος) shd. be read ; cf. ὀέα.)

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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