ἡδύς, ἡδεῖα, ἡδύ, ἡδὺς ἀϋτμή
(as feminine) once in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.369 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: Doric dialect ἁδύς [ᾱ], Boeotian dialect neuter ϝαδού (written γάδου) conjecture in [[ 6th c.BC: Corinna Lyrica 17 ] Refs 6th c.BC+] (compare proper name ϝαδιούλογος [[ “IG” 7.2788.3)] Refs], Elean βᾱδύς (which see): irregular accusative ἁδέα for ἡδύν [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 20.44, for ἡδεῖαν [prev. work] [8], 2nd c.BC: Moschus Bucolicus 3.82: _Ionic dialect_ _feminine_ ἡδέᾰ, _Doric dialect_ ἁδέα: _comparative_ ἡδίων [ῑ]] Refs 3rd c.BC+], superlative ἥδιστος [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.80, etc.; also ἡδύτερος 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 3.2.1, 1st c.AD(?): Pseudo-Phocylidea 195, “Anthologia Graeca” 9.247 (1st c.AD: Philippus Epigrammaticus)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἡδύτατος[[ [prev. work] 11.298.7, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.98e. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__I pleasant to the taste, adverb (see. above),compare ἥδομαι. [ἥδῐον [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 1101 (assuming variant), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 298 (Lyric poetry), 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 25.6, but ἡδίον (α) [ῑ] 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 251, etc.]] Refs 5th c.BC+] (Sanskrit svādús, Latin suāvis.)