The corpus record

ῥαιστήρ

raister · ὁ

smasher, hammer, beaten

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Where it lives

Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant — LSJ

smasher, hammer, beaten

smasher, i.e. hammer, Il. 18.477 (fem.), A. Pr. 56, Call. Dian. 59; masc. in AP 6.117 (Pancrat.); με χρύσειον ἀπὸ ῥαιστῆρος στήσητε set up a statue of me in beaten gold, ib. 7.5:—found in late Prose, Iamb. in Nic. p.121 P. (pl.).

2 destroyer

generally, destroyer, δαλὸς ῥ. μεγάρων Opp. H. 5.120.

In the wild

ῥαιστῆρι · rhaistēri Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 55–56
ῥαιστῆρα · rhaistēra Iliad 18.477

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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