The corpus record

τηκεδών

tekedon · ἡ

melting, wasting away, consumption, a means for reducing oneʼs weight

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Where it lives

Timaeus 2 · 0.85/10k
Odyssey 1 · 0.12/10k

What it meant

τηκεδών · tēkedōn — LSJ

melting

melting, of snow, D.S. 1.39.

II wasting away, consumption

wasting away, consumption, Od. 11.201; τοῦ σκήνεος Aret. SD 1.14; νούσων τακεδόνες (Dor. form) Supp.Epigr. 2.615 (Teos, metr.); νόσῳ τηκεδόνι χρώμενος App. BC 1.107.

2 a means for reducing oneʼs weight

a means for reducing oneʼs weight, Hp. Mul. 2.180.

3 putrefaction

putrefaction, σαρκὸς τακεδόνες Ti.Locr. 102c, cf. Pl. Ti. 82e; τ. πιμελῆς Gal. 16.703.

In the wild

τηκεδόνι · tēkedoni Odyssey 11.201
τηκεδόνα · tēkedona Plato, Timaeus 82 (DIORISIS sentence 792)
τηκεδόνα · tēkedona Plato, Timaeus 83 (DIORISIS sentence 800)

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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