The corpus record

γρῖπος

gripos

fishing basket, creel

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What it meant

1. γρῖπος · gripos — Beekes

γρῖπος [m.] ‘fishing basket, creel’ (AP, Artem.). γρόσφος 287 *VAR = γρῖφος [m.] (Plu.), mostly metaph. ‘riddle’ (Ar.; see Chantraine 1928: 20), secondarily as adj. ‘obscure’ (Hdn. Epim. 16). eDER γριφότης ‘obscurity’ (Hdn.). γριπεύς ‘fisherman’ (Sapph.), yputebw (Zonar.), γριπηΐς (τέχνη, AP); ypinwv ‘id’ (AP); denominative γριπέω (Syria), γριπίζω (Lib., H.), ypimopa (EM, Zonar.). γριφώδης ‘enigmatic’ … — [Beekes, s.v. γρῖπος, p. 333]

2. γρῖπος · gripos — Frisk

γρῖπος, γρῖφος. Zu den pelasg. Etymologien Hester Lingua 13 (1965) 371. — Das Nomen γριπεύς nicht bei Sapph., sondern AP, 505. — [Frisk, s.v. γρῖπος, p. 2191]

3. γρῖπος · gripos — LSJ

= γρῖφος, AP 6.23, Artem. 2.14.

II haul, take of fish

haul or take of fish, D.L. 1.32.

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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