The corpus record

διολισθάνω

diolisthano

slip through

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Where it lives

Lysis 1 · 1.44/10k
Clouds 1 · 1.04/10k

What it meant

διολισθάνω · diolisthanō — LSJ

slip through, to give, the slip, slip away, slipping

slip through, ὑπὸ τοὺς δακτύλους Hp. Art. 40; of a bone put out, ib. 63; δ. τοὺς χρήστας to give them the slip, Ar. l.c.; δ. καὶ διαδύεται ἡμᾶς Pl. l.c.; ἐπʼ ἄκρων δ. κυμάτων, of a ship, Luc. Dom. 12: abs., slip away, Id. Anach. 28, 29; δ. τὴν γλῶσσαν slipping with his tongue, of one drunken, Id. Vit.Auct. 12.

In the wild

διολισθεῖν · diolisthein Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 364)
διολισθαίνει · diolisthainei Plato, Lysis 216

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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