The corpus record

ὠμοπλάτη

omoplate · ἡ

shoulder blade

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Where it lives

On Hunting 4 · 4.39/10k
On the Art of Horsemanship 2 · 2.88/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant — LSJ

shoulder blade

shoulder blade, freq. in pl. ὠμοπλάται Arist. HA 493b12, al: sg. in Hp. Art. 1, Diog.Apoll. 6; also of animals, as of the horse, X. Eq. 1.7; of the dog, hare, boar, Id. Cyn. 4.1, 5.10: sg., ib. 10.16, Eq. 6.2, Arist. HA 498a33, 512a28, PA 693b1, SIG 1017.8 (Sinope, iii B. C.); σὺν ὠμοπλάτᾳ μέγαν ὦμον Theoc. 26.22.

In the wild

ὠμοπλάτας · ōmoplatas Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.5 (DIORISIS sentence 6671)
ὠμοπλάτης · ōmoplatēs Xenophon, On Hunting 10.16 (DIORISIS sentence 474)
ὠμοπλάτας · ōmoplatas Xenophon, On Hunting 4.1 (DIORISIS sentence 96)
ὠμοπλάτας · ōmoplatas Xenophon, On Hunting 5.10 (DIORISIS sentence 153)
ὠμοπλάτας · ōmoplatas Xenophon, On Hunting 5.30 (DIORISIS sentence 214)
ὠμοπλάταις · ōmoplatais Xenophon, On the Art of Horsemanship 1.7 (DIORISIS sentence 31)

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Where it came from

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