begin to get a beard
begin to get a beard, Pl. Smp. 181d, X. Cyr. 4.6.5; ἄρτι γενειάσκων IG 3.1314.
The corpus record
γενει-άσκω
geneiasko
begin to get a beard
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Where it lives
- Symposium 1 · 0.57/10k
- Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- γενειάσκειν · geneiaskein Plato, Symposium 181 (DIORISIS sentence 191)
- γενειάσκοντα · geneiaskonta Xenophon, Cyropaedia 4.6.5 (DIORISIS sentence 2240)
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.