The corpus record

τᾰλᾰ-πείριος

talapeirios

one who has suffered much, much-suffering

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Where it lives

Odyssey 5 · 0.58/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
History 1 · 0.07/10k

What it meant — LSJ

one who has suffered much, much-suffering

one who has suffered much, much-suffering, not in Il., ξεῖνος τ. ἐνθάδʼ ἱκάνω Od. 7.24, cf. 17.84; ἱκέτης τ. 6.193, 14.511; πτωχὸς τ. AP 10.66 (Agath.).

2 vagrant, vagabond

vagrant, vagabond, Aen.Tact. 10.10.

In the wild

ταλαπείριε · talapeirie Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.11 (DIORISIS sentence 1959)
ταλαπείριον · talapeirion Odyssey 14.511
ταλαπείριον · talapeirion Odyssey 17.84
ταλαπείριοι · talapeirioi Odyssey 19.379
ταλαπείριον · talapeirion Odyssey 6.193
ταλαπείριος · talapeirios Odyssey 7.24

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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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