The corpus record

κατασμῑκρ-ύνω

katasmikruno

lessen, abridge

Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k

What it meant

κατασμῑκρ-ύνω · katasmikr-ynō — LSJ

lessen, abridge, to be made small, become less

lessen, abridge, τὴν τοῦ λόγου σεμνότητα Demetr. Eloc. 44, cf. Luc. Gall. 14, Porph. Sent. 40:—Pass., to be made small, LXX 2 Ki. 7.19; become less, Marcellin. Puls. 310: metaph., M.Ant. 8.36.

II belittle

= κατασμικρίζω, belittle, -σμικρῦναι καὶ διαφαυλίσαι Hierocl. p.59 A., cf. Max.Tyr. 22.2, Ath. 8.359a, Simp. in Epict. p.102 D.

III

= κατακερματίζω, εἰς λεπτὰ καὶ ἀγεννῆ μόρια (Max.Tyr. 34.1 (Pass.).

In the wild

κατασμικρύνεται · katasmikrynetai Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.36.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1292)

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.

Downloads

Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

Ask the librarian

Ask about κατασμῑκρ-ύνω →