The corpus record

δακρυ-ρροέω

dakrurroeo

melt into tears, shed tears

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Where it lives

Trachiniae 2 · 2.75/10k
Heracles 2 · 2.56/10k
Ion 2 · 2.19/10k
Suppliants 1 · 1.42/10k
Electra 1 · 1.15/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k
Oedipus Tyrannus 1 · 1.08/10k

What it meant — LSJ

melt into tears, shed tears, run with tears

melt into tears, shed tears, S. Tr. 326, Ph. 2.179; χαρᾷ S. El. 1313; ἐπὶ παισί E. HF 1181; of the eyes, run with tears, Hp. Epid. 4.25; ὄμμα δακρυροοῦν E. Alc. 826, cf. Ph. 370 codd., Alex. 313.

2 ‘weep’

of vines, ‘weep’, Thphr. CP 3.13.2, Gp. 5.38.

In the wild

δακρυρροεῖς · dakryrroeis Euripides, Heracles 1114
δακρυρροεῖς · dakryrroeis Euripides, Heracles 1181
δακρυρροεῖ · dakryrroei Euripides, Ion 245 (DIORISIS sentence 104)
δακρυρροεῖς · dakryrroeis Euripides, Ion (DIORISIS sentence 627)
δακρυρρόει · dakryrroei Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis (DIORISIS sentence 547)
δακρυρρόει · dakryrroei Euripides, Suppliants (DIORISIS sentence 169)

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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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