The corpus record

τετρα-σκελής

tetraskeles

four-legged, four-footed

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Where it lives

Heracles 2 · 2.56/10k
Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
Phoenissae 1 · 1.04/10k

What it meant

τετρα-σκελής · tetra-skelēs — LSJ

four-legged, four-footed, of Centaurs

four-legged, four-footed, τ. οἰωνός, of a kind of griffin, A. Pr. 397; χέρσου τ. γονή, i.e. quadrupeds, S. Fr. 941.10; τ. ὕβρισμα the wanton violence of Centaurs, E. HF 181; τ. κενταυροπληθὴς πόλεμος ib. 1272; of bandages, Heliod. ap. Orib. 48.23.1, Sor. Fasc. 41, Gal. 18(1).774.

In the wild

τετρασκελὴς · tetraskelēs Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 396
τετρασκελῆ · tetraskelē Euripides, Heracles 1271–1273
τετρασκελές · tetraskeles Euripides, Heracles 181–184
τετρασκελὴς · tetraskelēs Euripides, Phoenissae 1 (DIORISIS sentence 378)

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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