LOGOI

The corpus record

ὑοειδής

uoeides

shaped like the letter

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What it meant — LSJ

shaped like the letter

shaped like the letter Υ, φάλαγξ Ascl. Tact. 11.7. Adv. -δῶς, of the fission of a vein, Antyll. ap. Orib. 7.7.1.

II hyoid

esp. ὀστοῦν ὑ. the hyoid bone, at the base of the tongue, Ruf. Onom. 155, Gal. 18(2), 957, UP 7.19, al., Poll. 2.202.

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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