The corpus record

χᾰραδρ-όομαι

charadroomai

to be broken into clefts by mountain-streams, to be full of gullies

Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Histories 2 · 0.11/10k

What it meant — LSJ

to be broken into clefts by mountain-streams, to be full of gullies, are widened into large channels

to be broken into clefts by mountain-streams, to be full of gullies, χώρη κεχαραδρωμένη Hdt. 2.25; ὡς ἂν χαραδρωθείη ὁ χῶρος Id. 7.176: metaph., οἱ πόροι χαραδροῦνται the pores are widened into large channels, Hp. Flat. 10.

In the wild

κεχαραδρωμένης · kecharadrōmenēs Herodotus, Histories 2.25.4 (DIORISIS sentence 1697)
χαραδρωθείη · charadrōtheiē Herodotus, Histories 7.176.4 (DIORISIS sentence 8100)

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.

Ask the librarian

Ask about χᾰραδρ-όομαι →