The corpus record

ἶπ-ος

ipos

Presse (zum Walken, zu medizinischen Zwecken usw.), schweres Gewicht im allg.

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What it meant

1. ἵπος · hipos — Frisk

ἵπος f. (n.) ‘Presse (zum Walken, zu medizinischen Zwecken usw.), schweres Gewicht im allg.’ (Pi., Archil., Hp., Ar. usw.). Denominatives Verb ἱπόω, auch mit ἀπ-, 2£-, "pressen, drücken’ (Hdt., Hp., A., Kom. usw.); davon inwoıs “das Pressen, Druck’ (Hp.), ἱπωτήριον “Ölpresse, Kelter’ (Pap.), ‘Kathete’ (Mediz.), ἰπωτρίς “pressend, drückend’ (σπάϑη, Mediz.), ἐξιπωtıxög “auspressend’ (Gal.). — Daneben der primäre … — [Frisk, s.v. ἵπος, p. 765]

2. ἶπ-ος · ip-os — LSJ

the piece of wood that falls and catches

the piece of wood that falls and catches the mouse, Ar. Pl. (815?) ap. Poll. 10.155, Id. 7.41, Eust. 16.40, etc. cf. εἶπος.

2 any weight, fullerʼs, press, press

any weight, fullerʼs press, Archil. 169; ἶ. ἀνεμόεσσα, of Aetna as the weight which holds Typhoeus down, Pi. O. 4.8; press used in surgery, Hp. Mochl. 38. (Perh. cf. ἴπτομαι.)

Where it came from

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