to be loose, get loose, relax in tension
to be loose, of joints, Dsc. 1.112; get loose, of a bandage, Heliod. ap. Orib. 48.33.5; relax in tension, Porph. in Harm. p.294 W., Herm. in Phdr. p.130A.
The corpus record
χᾰλᾰτονέω
chalatoneo
to be loose
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What it meant — LSJ
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.