wit
wit, Pl. Tht. 168d; χ. καὶ εὐτραπελία Id. R. 563a; opp. σπουδή, Plu. Lib.educ. 2.11e; χ. ἐν σπουδῇ γενόμενος D.H. Isoc. 12; including a vein of irony, coupled with δριμύτης, Hermog. Id. 2.5.
The corpus record
χᾰριεντ-ισμός
charientismos · ὁ
wit
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Where it lives
- Theaetetus 1 · 0.44/10k
- Republic 1 · 0.11/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- χαριεντισμοῦ · charientismou Plato, Republic 8.563 (DIORISIS sentence 5131)
- χαριεντισμόν · charientismon Plato, Theaetetus 168
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.