The corpus record

θεσπῐῳδ-ός

thespiodos

singing in prophetic strain

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Where it lives

Helen 3 · 3.07/10k
Hecuba 1 · 1.4/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k

What it meant — LSJ

singing in prophetic strain

singing in prophetic strain, of persons, S. Fr. 456, E. Hel. 145; also ὀμφαλὸς γῆς θ. Id. Med. 668; μαντική Philostr. VS 1Praef.: Subst. θεσπιῳδός, ἡ, = Lat. Carmenta, D.H. 1.31.

II caused by prophecy

θ. φόβον caused by prophecy, A. Ag. 1134 (lyr., s.v.l.).

In the wild

θεσπιῳδὸν · thespiōidon Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1133–1135
θεσπιῳδοῦ · thespiōidou Euripides, Hecuba (DIORISIS sentence 341)
θεσπιῳδοῦ · thespiōidou Euripides, Helen 515 (DIORISIS sentence 321)
θεσπιῳδὸν · thespiōidon Euripides, Helen (DIORISIS sentence 118)
θεσπιῳδὸς · thespiōidos Euripides, Helen (DIORISIS sentence 606)

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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