LOGOI

The corpus record

κατασπείρω

kataspeiro

sow, plant

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

Where it lives

What it meant

κατασπείρω · kataspeirō — LSJ

sow, plant

sow, plant, εἰς μήτραν ζῷα Pl. Ti. 91d: metaph., ἀνίας μοι κατασπείρας S. Aj. 1005:—Pass., ὁ κατεσπαρμένος σπόρος PMagd. 7.8 (iii B.C.).

2 beget, him that begat

beget, τινα E. HF 469, Phint. ap. Stob. 4.23.61a; τὸν κατασπείραντα him that begat me, Diph. 93.

II spread as in sowing, scatter, over, to be spread abroad, dispersed

spread as in sowing, τοῦ χάρακος κ. [πυροβόλα] scatter them over . . , Plu. Cam. 34; αὐτοῖς αὔραν τινὰ κ. ἡ χώρα νότιον Id. Dio 25:—Pass., to be spread abroad, dispersed, εἰ μὴ κατεσπαρμένοι ἦσαν οἱ τοιοῦτοι λόγοι ἐν τοῖς πᾶσιν Pl. Lg. 891b.

III plant

plant, ἀμπελῶνα LXX De. 22.9; γῆν PMagd. 28.3 (iii B.C.), Ph. 2.262: metaph., [νόσοι] χωρία καὶ πελάγη κατασπείρασαι τῶν ἀβουλήτων Id. 2.567; πλούτῳ Ἑλλάδα κ. D.H. Dem. 29.

IV besprinkle

besprinkle, ἤδη καὶ λευκαί με κατασπείρουσιν ἔθειραι AP 11.41 (Phld.).

In the wild

6 of 11 attestations shown. Ask for more.

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

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

Ask the librarian

Ask about κατασπείρω →