1. τερηδών · terēdōn — Chantraine
The corpus record
τερηδών
teredon
όνος : f
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Where it lives
- Thesmophoriazusae 1 · 1.42/10k
- Knights 1 · 1.13/10k
What it meant
2. τερηδών · terēdōn — LSJ
wood-worm, Ar. Eq. 1308, Thphr. HP 5.4.4, Plb. 6.10.3.
a grub which infests beehives, larva of the wax-moth, Galleria mellonella (cf. πυραύστης), Arist. HA 605b17.
a worm in the bowels, Id. Fr. 241.
caries, in the bones, Hp. Morb. 2.24, al. (Cf. τετραίνω, Skt. tṛṇatti ‘bore through’, Lith. trandis ‘hairworm, moth’.)
In the wild
- τερηδόνων · terēdonōn Aristophanes, Knights (DIORISIS sentence 943)
- Τερηδὼν · Terēdōn Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 1175 (DIORISIS sentence 911)
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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