The corpus record

ἔγκαρπ-ος

egkarpos

containing fruit

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Where it lives

Ichneutae 1 · 5.82/10k
Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k
Oedipus Tyrannus 1 · 1.08/10k
Phaedrus 1 · 0.6/10k
Jeremias 1 · 0.36/10k

What it meant

ἔγκαρπ-ος · enkarp-os — LSJ

containing fruit, fruitful, produce, of produce, fruitful

containing fruit, κάλυξιν ἐγκάρποις χθονός S. OT 25; fruitful, σπέρματα Pl. Phdr. 276b; of soil, Thphr. CP 2.4.2; γᾶν ἔγκαρπον φέρειν may the earth bear produce, SIG 526.41 (Crete); δένδρα Plu. Lib.educ. 2.2e; τέλη ἔγκαρπα tithe of produce, S. Tr. 238: metaph., χρήσιμον καὶ ἔ. fruitful, Plu. Max. cum princip. 2.776b, cf. Luc. Merc.Cond. 39 (Sup.). Adv. -πως, διακεῖσθαι Aen.Tact. 7.1.

II festoons of fruit

ἔγκαρπα, τά, festoons of fruit on friezes or the capitals of columns, Lat. encarpa, Vitr. 4.1.7.

ἔγκαρπα or ἔγκαρτα, = τοὺς κεκουρευμένους πυρούς, Phryn. Trag.4 (ap. Hsch.).

In the wild

ἔγκαρπα · enkarpa Plato, Phaedrus 276 (DIORISIS sentence 940)
ἔγκαρπον · enkarpon Septuaginta, Jeremias 38
ἔγκαρπα · enkarpa Sophocles, Ichneutae 22–44
ἐγκάρποις · enkarpois Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 22–26
ἔγκαρπα · enkarpa Sophocles, Trachiniae 237–238

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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