The corpus record

ζευκ-τήριος

zeukterios

fit for joining

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Where it lives

Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
Acts 1 · 0.56/10k

What it meant — LSJ

fit for joining, yoking

fit for joining or yoking, γέφυρα γαῖν δυοῖν ζ. A. Pers. 736 (troch.); πάτερ . . Μαινάδων ζευκτήριε Id. Fr. 382.

II yoke

as Subst., ζευκτήριον, τό, = ζυγόν, yoke, Id. Ag. 529, POxy. 934.5 (iii A.D.); ζευκτηρία, ἡ, = ζεύγλη II, Act.Ap. 27.40.

In the wild

ζευκτήριον · zeuktērion Aeschylus, Agamemnon 529–531
ζευκτηρίαν · zeuktērian Aeschylus, Persians 736
ζευκτηρίας · zeuktērias New Testament, Acts 27.40 (DIORISIS sentence 932)

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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