The corpus record

τετράκυκλος

tetrakuklos

four-wheeled

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Where it lives

De aere aquis et locis 1 · 1.35/10k
Odyssey 1 · 0.12/10k
Histories 2 · 0.11/10k
Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

τετρά-κυκλος · tetra-kyklos — LSJ

four-wheeled, four-wheeled wagon

four-wheeled, ἕλκον τ. ἀπήνην Il. 24.324; ἄμαξαι ἐσθλαὶ τετράκυκλοι Od. 9.242, cf. Hdt. 1.188, 2.63, Hp. Aër. 18: as Subst., four-wheeled wagon, τροχοὶ τετρακύκλου IG 1(2).313.116. [ᾱ only in Od. l.c., where Bentley conjectured τεσσαράκυκλοι.]

In the wild

τετράκυκλοι · tetrakykloi Herodotus, Histories 1.188.2 (DIORISIS sentence 1330)
τετράκυκλον · tetrakyklon Herodotus, Histories 2.63.2 (DIORISIS sentence 1982)
τετράκυκλοι · tetrakykloi Hippocrates, De aere aquis et locis 18 (DIORISIS sentence 340)
τετράκυκλον · tetrakyklon Iliad 24.324
τετράκυκλοι · tetrakykloi Odyssey 9.242

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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