1. σκόροδον · skorodon — Beekes
The corpus record
σκόροδον
skorodon
garlic, Allium sativum
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Where it lives
- Acharnians 7 · 9.85/10k
- Peace 3 · 3.77/10k
- Frogs 2 · 2.2/10k
- On the Sacred Disease 1 · 2.18/10k
- Thesmophoriazusae 1 · 1.42/10k
- Ecclesiazusae 1 · 1.31/10k
- Lysistrata 1 · 1.26/10k
- Plutus 1 · 1.24/10k
- Knights 1 · 1.13/10k
- Symposium 1 · 1.05/10k
- Wasps 1 · 1.03/10k
- Histories 2 · 0.11/10k
What it meant
2. σκόροδον · skorodon — Chantraine
3. σκόροδον · skorodon — Frisk
4. σκόροδον · skorodon — LSJ
garlic, Allium sativum, Hdt. 2.125, 4.17, Gal. 12.126: pl., Schwyzer 725.5 (Milet., vi B.C.), Hp. Acut. 37; σκορόδων κεφαλαί Ar. Pl. 718, cf. V. 679; σκορόδοις ἀλείφειν, = σκοροδίζειν, Id. Pax 502; ἵνα μή ποτε σκόροδα φάγῃ μηδὲ κυάμους μέλανας if he doesnʼt want to eat war-rations, Id. Lys. 690 (on κυάμους in this phrase cf. App.Prov. 3.27, Suid.); cf. σκόρδον.
τὰ σ. the garlic-market, Eup. 304.
In the wild
- σκόροδα · skoroda Aristophanes, Acharnians 830 (DIORISIS sentence 648)
- σκόροδον · skorodon Aristophanes, Acharnians *dikaio/polos.520 (DIORISIS sentence 405)
- σκορόδων · skorodōn Aristophanes, Acharnians *dikaio/polos (DIORISIS sentence 417)
- σκόροδα · skoroda Aristophanes, Acharnians (DIORISIS sentence 132)
- σκόροδʼ · skorodʼ Aristophanes, Acharnians (DIORISIS sentence 133)
- σκόροδα · skoroda Aristophanes, Acharnians (DIORISIS sentence 553)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. σκόροδον (scan p. 1409; entry #5623). Root candidates: *skord-, *skodor-, *skorod-.
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. σκόροδον (scan p. 1041; entry #7385).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. σκόροδον (scan pp. 2305-2306; entry #7935).
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