hewing, felling wood
hewing, felling wood, πέλεκυς X. Cyr. 6.2.36 (v.l. ξυλοτόμος).
b wood-feller
Subst. -κόπος, ὁ, wood-feller, LXX Jo. 9.27(21), Str. 16.4.11.
2 pecking wood
pecking wood, of the birds κελεός and κνιπολόγος, Arist. HA 593a9, 14.
The corpus record
ξῠλο-κόπος
xulokopos
hewing, felling wood
Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Josue (cod. Vat.) 4 · 3.01/10k
- Deuteronomium 1 · 0.45/10k
- Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ξυλοκόπου · xylokopou Septuaginta, Deuteronomium 29
- ξυλοκόποι · xylokopoi Septuaginta, Josue (cod. Vat.) 9
- ξυλοκόποι · xylokopoi Septuaginta, Josue (cod. Vat.) 9
- ξυλοκόπος · xylokopos Septuaginta, Josue (cod. Vat.) 9
- ξυλοκόπους · xylokopous Septuaginta, Josue (cod. Vat.) 9
- ξυλοκόπον · xylokopon Xenophon, Cyropaedia 6.2.36 (DIORISIS sentence 3270)
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.