The corpus record

ψοφο-δεής

psophodees

frightened at every noise, shy, timid

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Where it lives

Phaedrus 1 · 0.6/10k
Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k

What it meant — LSJ

frightened at every noise, shy, timid, timidity

frightened at every noise, shy, timid, esp. of animals, Plu. Cam. 27; [ἵπποι] ψ. καὶ εὐπτόητοι Id. QConv. 2.642a; of men, Pl. Phdr. 257d, D.H. 11.22, cf. PGrenf. 2.7 (a). 2 (iii B. C.); name of a play of Menander: τὸ ἐν τῇ πολιτείᾳ ψ. timidity, Plu. Nic. 2. Adv. -εῶς Id. Aud. 2.47b, Luc. Pr. Im. 7, 28, Herod.Med. ap. Orib. 10.11.2, Jul. ad Ath. 277c.

In the wild

ψοφοδεής · psophodeēs Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 6.30.3 (DIORISIS sentence 836)
ψοφοδεᾶ · psophodea Plato, Phaedrus 257 (DIORISIS sentence 524)

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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