The corpus record

ὑετός

uetos · ὁ

rain, a heavy shower, rains

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Where it lives

Epistula Jeremiae 1 · 7.94/10k
Job 9 · 6.75/10k
Joel 1 · 6.49/10k
James 1 · 5.85/10k
Canticum 1 · 5.14/10k
Odae 2 · 4.92/10k
De Mundo 3 · 4.73/10k
Regnorum III 9 · 4.71/10k
Ecclesiastes 2 · 4.42/10k
Psalmi Salomonis 2 · 4.2/10k
Zacharias 2 · 4.15/10k
Amos 1 · 3.25/10k

Densest 12 of 39 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

rain, a heavy shower, rains

rain, Il. 12.133, Hes. Op. 545; ποιεῖν ὑετόν Ar. V. 263 (lyr.); esp. a heavy shower (whereas ὄμβρος is continuous rain, ψεκάς or ψακάς drizzle), Antipho 5.22, X. Cyn. 5.4, Arist. Mete. 347a12, Mu. 394a31, Chrysipp.Stoic. 2.203: pl., rains, Diog. Apoll.3, Arist. PA 653a4.

II rainiest

as Adj. in Sup., ἄνεμοι ὑετώτατοι the rainiest winds, Hdt. 2.25 (where θυετιώτατοι cod. D., ὑετιώτατοι Hude). [ῡ Hom., Hes., Att.; later ῠ in ῠετοῖο Nic. Th. 273.]

In the wild

ὑετοὶ · hyetoi Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 150)
ὑετῶν · hyetōn Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 170)
ὑετὸν · hyeton Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 58)
ὑετοὺς · hyetous Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.prologue (DIORISIS sentence 66)
ὑετὸν · hyeton Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 6493)
ὑετούς · hyetous Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 9.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7743)

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Where it came from

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