The corpus record

ᾠοτοκ-έω

ootokeo

lay eggs, oviparous, to be produced as eggs

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Where it lives

De Respiratione 1 · 1.65/10k
Politics 1 · 0.15/10k

What it meant — LSJ

lay eggs, oviparous, to be produced as eggs

lay eggs, Arist. HA 566b1, etc.; opp. σκωληκοτοκέω and ζωοτοκέω, Id. Pol. 1256b13, GA 732a28, al.; τὰ ᾠοτοκοῦντα oviparous animals, ib. 749a17:—Pass., to be produced as eggs, τὰ ᾠοτοκούμενα ib. 746a27.

2 produce seed

of plants, produce seed, Emp. 79.

In the wild

ᾠοτοκοῦντα · ōiotokounta Aristotle, De Respiratione (DIORISIS sentence 6)
ᾠοτοκεῖ · ōiotokei Aristotle, Politics 1256b (DIORISIS sentence 176)

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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