ξύλον [ῠ], τό
(plural spelt ξύλεα [[ “Abh. Berl. Akad.” 1928(6).32 (Cos, 5th c.BC))] Refs 5th c.BC+], wood cut and ready for use, firewood, timber, etc., [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+], mostly in plural, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.507, 547, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.418 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ξ. νήϊα ship-timber, [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 808; ξ. ναυπηγήσιμα 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.25, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.4.4, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 706b, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 17.28 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ξ. τετράγωνα logs cut square, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.186, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 325d, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1109b7. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 in plural, also, the wood-market, ἐπὶ ξύλα ἰέναι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 403. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II in singular, piece of wood, log, beam, post, once in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, ξ. αὖον.. ἢ δρυὸς ἢ πεύκης 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.327 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ξ. σύκινον spoon made of fig wood, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Hp.Ma.” 291c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; peg or lever, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Motu Animalium” 701b9 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; perch, ἐπὶ ξύλου καθεύδειν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1431: by poetry periphrastic, Ἀργοῦς ξύλον 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 20 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἵπποιο κακὸν ξ., of the Trojan horse, [[“Anthologia Graeca” 9.152 (6th c.AD: Agathias Historicus et Epigrammaticus): hence anything made of wood, as, ] Refs 6th c.AD+]