The corpus record

δᾳδουχ-έω

dadoucheo

carry a torch

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Where it lives

Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k

What it meant — LSJ

carry a torch

carry a torch, esp. in pageants, E. Tr. 343, Luc. Cat. 22.

2 hold the office of δᾳδοῦχος I.1

hold the office of δᾳδοῦχος I.1, IG 2.1413,1414.

II celebrate, to be illuminated

c. acc., celebrate, τὰ μυστήρια Them. Or. 5.71a:—Med., γόον οὐχ ὑμέναιον ἐδᾳδουχήσατο Epigr.Gr. 413:—Pass., to be illuminated, Socr.Rhod. 1.

In the wild

δᾳδουχεῖς · daidoucheis Euripides, Trojan Women (DIORISIS sentence 186)

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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