The corpus record

ὀρέστερος

oresteros

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Where it lives

Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k
Hecuba 1 · 1.4/10k
Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
Philoctetes 1 · 1.14/10k
Orestes 1 · 1.02/10k
Odyssey 1 · 0.12/10k
Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

ὀρέσ-τερος · ores-teros — LSJ

poet. for ὀρεινός, epith. of a snake, Il. 22.93 ; of wolves and lions, Od. 10.212 ; ὀρεστέρα παμβῶτι γᾶ S. Ph. 391 (lyr.); παρθένος E. Tr. 551 (lyr.); ἀγρευτῆρες Opp. H. 4.586. (Posit. Adj. formed from ὄρος (τό), opp. ἀγρότερος from ἀγρός.)

In the wild

ὀρεστέρου · oresterou Euripides, Bacchae 1139–1143
ὀρεστέρου · oresterou Euripides, Hecuba (DIORISIS sentence 597)
ὀρέστεροι · oresteroi Euripides, Orestes 1460 (DIORISIS sentence 977)
ὀρεστέραν · oresteran Euripides, Trojan Women 552 (DIORISIS sentence 285)
ὀρέστερος · oresteros Iliad 22.93
ὀρέστεροι · oresteroi Odyssey 10.212

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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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