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The corpus record

θῡμώδης

thumodes1

fierce

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Where it lives

  • Proverbia 5 · 4.5/10k
  • Siracides 2 · 1.08/10k
  • Eudemian Ethics 1 · 0.38/10k
  • Jeremias 1 · 0.36/10k
  • Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
  • Nicomachean Ethics 1 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

θῡμώδης · thymōdēs — LSJ

fierce

= θῡμοειδής 2, Arist. Rh. 1389a26, EN 1149b14, Plu. Cohib. 2.462a; of animals, fierce, Arist. HA 488b14; θ. τὸ ἦθος Id. PA 650b34; = ἀνδρεῖοι, opp. ὀξύθυμοι and ὀργίλοι, Gal. 17(1).188: Sup. -έστατος Ael. NA 3.2. Adv. -δῶς, f.l. for μυθ-, Aristeas 168.

In the wild

6 of 11 attestations shown. Ask for more.

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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