The corpus record

ἀκρό-πλοος

akroploos

swimming at the top, skimming the surface

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What it meant

ἀκρό-πλοος · akro-ploos — LSJ

swimming at the top, skimming the surface, buoyant, superficial

swimming at the top, skimming the surface, φλέβια Hp. Morb. 1.14, cf. Plu. Gen.Socr. 2.591e; buoyant, ὑστέρη Aret. SA 2.11; restored for ἀκρόπαθος in Hp. Prorrh. 2.11:—superficial, Id. Ep. 18 (Democr.).

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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