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The corpus record

ψωμός

psomos · ὁ

morsel, bit

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Where it lives

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  • Job 3 · 2.25/10k
  • Memorabilia 2 · 0.56/10k
  • Regnorum I 1 · 0.54/10k
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  • Psalmi 1 · 0.29/10k
  • Discourses 2 · 0.27/10k
  • Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
  • Odyssey 1 · 0.12/10k

What it meant — LSJ

morsel, bit, gobbets

morsel, bit, ψ. ἀνδρόμεοι gobbets of manʼs flesh, Od. 9.374, cf. Amips. 19.2 (anap.), X. Mem. 3.14.5, Pericles ap. Arist. Rh. 1407a2, Plb. 30.26.6; ψ. ἄρτου LXX Jd. 19.5, al. (ψ. alone, Ru. 2.14).

In the wild

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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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