The corpus record

ζωμός

zomos · ὁ

soup, sauce, soups

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Where it lives

Lysis 1 · 1.44/10k
Judices (cod. Al.) 2 · 1.37/10k
Isaias 1 · 0.38/10k
Ezechiel 1 · 0.35/10k
Discourses 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant — LSJ

soup, sauce, soups, broth, bloodshed

soup or sauce to eat with meat, fish, etc., Ar. Eq. 1174, Pax 716, al.; οἱ ζ. οἱ τῶν πιόνων soups made from animals with soft fat (πιμελή), Arist. HA 520a8, cf. PA 651a29; ζ. μέλας black broth of the Spartans, Matro Conv. 94, cf. Plu. Lyc. 12: metaph., bloodshed, Thphr. Char. 8.7.

2 fat, greasy fellow

Com. name for fat, greasy fellow, λιπαρὸς περιπατεῖ Δημοκλῆς, ζ. κατωνόμασται Anaxandr. 34.5, cf. Aristopho 4.3.

3 wash

in Alchemy, wash, Ps.-Democr.Alch. p.48 B., Zos.Alch. p.169B.

In the wild

ζωμὸς · zōmos Epictetus, Discourses 3.24 (DIORISIS sentence 5355)
ζωμόν · zōmon Plato, Lysis 209
ζωμὸς · zōmos Septuaginta, Ezechiel 24
ζωμὸν · zōmon Septuaginta, Isaias 65
ζωμὸν · zōmon Septuaginta, Judices (cod. Al.) 6
ζωμὸν · zōmon Septuaginta, Judices (cod. Al.) 6

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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