The corpus record

ὠλεσί-καρπος

olesikarpos

losing its fruit

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Where it lives

Odyssey 1 · 0.12/10k

What it meant — LSJ

losing its fruit, because the priests who beat it were eunuchs

losing its fruit, ἰτέαι ὠ., because they shed their fruits before ripening, Od. 10.510, cf. Thphr. HP 3.1.3; [ἐρινεός] Id. CP 2.9.14: metaph., ὠ. τύμπανον the kettledrum in the mysteries of Cybele, because the priests who beat it were eunuchs, Opp. C. 3.283: dub. sens. in Cerc. 6.14.

In the wild

ὠλεσίκαρποι · ōlesikarpoi Odyssey 10.510

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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