The corpus record

Ὦτος

otos · ὁ

a horned, eared owl, an easily deceived person, booby

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Where it lives

Symposium 1 · 0.57/10k
Iliad 2 · 0.18/10k
Odyssey 1 · 0.12/10k

What it meant

ὦτος · ōtos — LSJ

a horned, eared owl

a horned or eared owl, ὁ δʼ ὦτος . . , περὶ τὰ ὦτα πτερύγια ἔχων Arist. HA 597b21, cf. Plu. Sollert. 2.961e, v.l. ib. Adul. 52b: Ath. 9.390d appears to identify it with the ὠτίς, but this is due to interpolation.

II an easily deceived person, booby

an easily deceived person, booby, Com.Adesp. 47, Ael.Dion. Fr. 336.

III

ὦτα· τὰ μὴ στρογγύλα, Hsch.; but ὦτοι λίθοι in IG 4.823.66 (Troezen) is wrongly read, v. ὧ II.

In the wild

Ὦτον · Ōton Iliad 15.518
Ὦτος · Ōtos Iliad 5.385
Ὦτόν · Ōton Odyssey 11.308
Ὤτου · Ōtou Plato, Symposium 190 (DIORISIS sentence 311)

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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