The corpus record

ὠκῠ-τόκος

okutokos

causing quick and easy birth

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Where it lives

Oedipus at Colonus 1 · 0.97/10k

What it meant — LSJ

causing quick and easy birth

causing quick and easy birth, σελήνη (i. e. Artemis), Tim. Fr. 28.

2 giving quick increase

of a river, ὠ. πεδίων ἐπινίσεται giving quick increase, S. OC 689 (lyr.).

II quick birth, easy delivery

ὠκύτοκον, τό, quick birth, easy delivery, Hdt. 4.35.

In the wild

ὠκυτόκος · ōkytokos Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 685–690

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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