The corpus record

ὕδρος

udros · ὁ

water-snake, Coluber natrix

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Where it lives

De Respiratione 1 · 1.65/10k
Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

ὕδρος · hydros — LSJ

water-snake, Coluber natrix

water-snake, Coluber natrix, Il. 2.723, Hdt. 2.76, Arist. HA 487a23, 508b1; λευκὸς ὡς ὕδρου γαστήρ Call. Iamb. 1.218 ( = εἶδος δράκοντος, Sch. in mg.).

a small water-animal, = φαλάγγιον or σαῦρος, Artem. 4.56.

III Hydra

the constellation Hydra, Eudox. ap. Hipparch. 2.2.13. (Cf. Skt. udrás, OE. oter ‘otter’.)

In the wild

ὕδρων · hydrōn Aristotle, De Respiratione (DIORISIS sentence 99)
ὕδρων · hydrōn Herodotus, Histories 2.76.2 (DIORISIS sentence 2081)
ὕδρου · hydrou Iliad 2.723

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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