The corpus record

θάλος

thalos · τό

scion, child

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Where it lives

Iphigenia in Tauris 3 · 3.62/10k
Electra 1 · 1.32/10k
Phoenissae 1 · 1.04/10k
Odyssey 1 · 0.12/10k
Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant — LSJ

scion, child

= θαλλός, but only nom. and acc. in metaph. sense of scion, child, φίλον θ. Il. 22.87; λευσσόντων τοιόνδε θ. Od. 6.157; γλυκερόν, νέον θ., h.Cer. 66, 187; σεμνὸν θ. Ἀλκαϊδᾶν Pi. O. 6.68, cf. 2.45, E. El. 15, etc.—For the pl., v. θάλεα, τά.

In the wild

θάλος · thalos Euripides, Electra *au)tourgo/s (DIORISIS sentence 6)
θάλος · thalos Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 170 (DIORISIS sentence 69)
θάλος · thalos Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 205 (DIORISIS sentence 81)
θάλος · thalos Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris (DIORISIS sentence 84)
θάλος · thalos Euripides, Phoenissae (DIORISIS sentence 41)
θάλος · thalos Iliad 22.87

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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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