wanting half, half-full, from being only half-full
wanting half, half-full, X. An. 1.9.25, AP 5.182 (Posidipp.), PSI 4.428.24, cj. for -δαής in Nic. Al. 55; ἐξ ἡμιδεοῦς γέμοντα ἤδη from being only half-full . . , Them. Or. 18.222b.
The corpus record
ἡμι-δεής
emidees
wanting half, half-full
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Where it lives
- Anabasis 1 · 0.18/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ἡμιδεεῖς · hēmideeis Xenophon, Anabasis 1.9.25 (DIORISIS sentence 548)
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.