finger-sheath, thumb-screw
finger-sheath, X. Cyr. 8.8.17, Clearch. 21; thumb-screw, LXX 4 Ma. 8.13.
The corpus record
δακτῠλ-ήθρα
daktulethra · ἡ
finger-sheath
Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Machabaeorum IV 1 · 1.3/10k
- Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- δακτυλήθρας · daktylēthras Septuaginta, Machabaeorum IV 8
- δακτυλήθρας · daktylēthras Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.8.17 (DIORISIS sentence 4938)
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.