The corpus record

χωνεύω

choneuo

coat, with pitch

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What it meant

χωνεύω · chōneuō — LSJ

contr. fr. χοανεύω (q. v.).

II coat, with pitch

coat jars with pitch, τοὺς χωνεύοντας κεραμεῖς PSI 4.441.3, cf. 15 (iii B. C.); κεχωνευκώς PCair.Zen. 741.26 (iii B. C.): but pf. part. Pass. κεχωνημένα ib. 742.4 (iii B. C.) (χωνεύω and κωνάω became assimilated; cf. ἀχώνευτος and ἀχώνητος (Addenda)).

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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