The corpus record

ζείδωρος

zeidoros

zea-giving

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Where it lives

Works and Days 3 · 5.2/10k
Odyssey 9 · 1.04/10k
Iliad 3 · 0.27/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant — LSJ

zea-giving

zea-giving (Plin. HN 18.82, EM 410.6), as epith. of the earth, ζείδωρος ἄρουρα Il. 2.548, Od. 3.3, Hes. Op. 173; ζ. ἀρδμός Nonn. D. 26.185: c. gen., ζ. ὀπώρης ἀχράς AP 9.4 (Cyllen.): also in late Prose, Hld. 9.22 (ζε(ϝ)έ-δωρος, cf. ζέα).

II life-giving, mamma

some authors derived it from ζάω,= βιόδωρος (so expld. by Hsch.), life-giving, Ἀφροδίτη Emp. 151; Ἠέλιος Nonn. D. 12.23, cf. 22.276. ζείζιν, mamma, Gloss.

In the wild

ζείδωρος · zeidōros Herodotus, Histories 2.116.4 (DIORISIS sentence 2348)
ζείδωρος · zeidōros Works and Days 117
ζείδωρος · zeidōros Works and Days 170
ζείδωρος · zeidōros Works and Days 236–237
ζείδωρος · zeidōros Iliad 2.548
ζείδωρον · zeidōron Iliad 20.226

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Where it came from

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