The corpus record

ὑπερμήκης

upermekes

exceedingly long

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Where it lives

Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
Numeri 1 · 0.43/10k
Histories 3 · 0.16/10k

What it meant

ὑπερμήκης · hypermēkēs — LSJ

exceedingly long, very long, very far

exceedingly long, δρόμοι A. Pr. 591; ἡ βασιλέος . . χεὶρ ὑ. the kingʼs arm is very long, reaches very far, Hdt. 8.140.βʹ

2 exceedingly high

exceedingly high, of mountains, Id. 7.128, 129.

3 exceeding loud

ὑπερμάκης βοά a cry exceeding loud, Pi. l.c.

In the wild

ὑπερμήκεις · hypermēkeis Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 590–592
ὑπερμήκεα · hypermēkea Herodotus, Histories 7.128.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7765)
ὑπερμήκεσι · hypermēkesi Herodotus, Histories 7.129.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7770)
ὑπερμήκης · hypermēkēs Herodotus, Histories 8.140B.2 (DIORISIS sentence 9278)
ὑπερμήκεις · hypermēkeis Septuaginta, Numeri 13

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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