The corpus record

ὑπόκωφος

upokophos

somewhat deaf, rather deaf

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Where it lives

Knights 1 · 1.13/10k
Protagoras 1 · 0.56/10k
Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
Republic 1 · 0.11/10k

What it meant

ὑπόκωφος · hypokōphos — LSJ

somewhat deaf, rather deaf

somewhat deaf, rather deaf, Hp. Coac. 172, Ar. Eq. 43, Pl. Prt. 334d, R. 488b.

II absurd, foolish

absurd, foolish, σφόδρα ὑπόκωφον προσπίπτειν ἔοικε (sc. the reading συναγείρεται in Il. 15.680) Philem. Lex. ap. Porph. ad Il. p.287 S., cf. Phld. Rh. 1.330 S.

In the wild

ὑπόκωφον · hypokōphon Aristophanes, Knights 40 (DIORISIS sentence 46)
ὑποκώφῳ · hypokōphōi Aristotle, Rhetoric 3
ὑπόκωφος · hypokōphos Plato, Protagoras 334
ὑπόκωφον · hypokōphon Plato, Republic 6.488 (DIORISIS sentence 3682)

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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