The corpus record

ὑδρο-χόος

udrochoos · ὁ

water-pourer

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What it meant — LSJ

water-pourer, Aquarius

water-pourer, name of the constellation Aquarius, Eudox. ap. Hipparch. 1.2.20, Placit. 1.6.6, Euc. Phaen. p.12 M., cf. AP 12.199 (Strat.); contr. ὑδρο-χοῦς, Supp.Epigr. 7.363.5, al. (Dura-Europus, ii A. D.):—dat. ὑδροχοῆϊ (as if from ὑδροχοεύς), Ep. for the common ὑδροχόῳ, Arat. 389, Nonn. D. 23.315.

name of an Egyptian month, = Φαρμοῦθι, POxy. 465.11 (ii A. D.).

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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