1. ἕρπω · herpō — Beekes
to crawl, slink, go on all four
The corpus record
ἕρπω
erpo
to crawl, slink, go on all four
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Distribution
- Trachiniae 9 · 12.38/10k
- Antigone 6 · 8.18/10k
- Philoctetes 6 · 6.82/10k
- Rhesus 3 · 5.58/10k
- Ajax 4 · 5.09/10k
- Oedipus at Colonus 5 · 4.83/10k
- Iphigenia in Tauris 3 · 3.62/10k
- Prometheus Bound 2 · 3.4/10k
- Helen 3 · 3.07/10k
- Orestes 3 · 3.06/10k
- Leviticus 5 · 2.67/10k
- Electra 2 · 2.65/10k
Densest 12 of 32 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
Senses
2. ἕρπω · herpō — Chantraine
aor
3. Ἕρπω · Herpō — Chantraine
ἕρπετον subsistent en grec moderne
4. ἕρπω · herpō — Frisk
Aor
5. ἕρπω · herpō — Frisk
gehen
6. ἕρπω · herpō — LSJ
move slowly, walk
Attestations
- ἕρπει · herpei Iliad 17.447
- εἷρπον · heirpon Odyssey 12.395
- ἕρπων · herpōn Odyssey 17.158
- ἕρπει · herpei Odyssey 18.131
- ἕρπεις · herpeis Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 12.32.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2142)
- ἕρφʼ · herphʼ Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 810–812
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Deep etymology
Authority pointers, pending review
These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.
- scan pp. 510-511; entry #2270
Review: Under source audit
OCR root-candidate values are withheld pending source verification, rights review, and scholarly review. No root, reconstruction, cognate, or historical relationship is asserted here.
- scan pp. 388-389; entry #2744 Review: Under source audit
- scan pp. 597-598; entry #2133 Review: Under source audit
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