The corpus record

ὦσις

osis · ἡ

thrusting, pushing

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Where it lives

Helen 1 · 1.02/10k

What it meant — LSJ

thrusting, pushing, depression, thrusts

= ὤθησις, thrusting, pushing, Hp. Aph. 3.26 (pl.); opp. ἕλξις, Arist. Ph. 243a17, de An. 433b25; of an injury to the skull, depression, Gal. ap. Orib. 46.21.1: pl., thrusts, Plu. Aet. phys. 2.916d, Procl. in Ti. 1.297 D., al.

In the wild

ὤσει · ōsei Euripides, Helen *)/aggelos.1560 (DIORISIS sentence 1013)

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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