The corpus record

ὠκύπορος

okuporos

quick-going

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Where it lives

Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
Iliad 9 · 0.81/10k
Odyssey 3 · 0.35/10k

What it meant — LSJ

quick-going, swift-flowing

quick-going, in Hom. always epith. of ships, Il. 1.421, 488, al., cf. Choeril. 6; of streams, swift-flowing, πόρθμευμʼ ἀχέων A. Ag. 1557 (anap.); κυμάτων ῥιπαί Pi. P. 4.194: later, ὀϊστοί AP 5.85 (Claudian.); of a person, ὠκύπορος μετανίσσεται E. Hyps.Fr. 1 iii 37 (lyr.).

In the wild

ὠκύπορον · ōkyporon Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1552–1559
ὠκυπόροισι · ōkyporoisi Iliad 1.421
ὠκυπόροισι · ōkyporoisi Iliad 1.488
ὠκυπόρων · ōkyporōn Iliad 10.308
ὠκυπόρων · ōkyporōn Iliad 10.320
ὠκυπόροισιν · ōkyporoisin Iliad 10.442

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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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