The corpus record

κατισχν-αίνω

katischnaino

cause to pine

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Where it lives

Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k
Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
Republic 1 · 0.11/10k

What it meant

κατισχν-αίνω · katischn-ainō — LSJ

cause to pine, waste away

cause to pine or waste away, A. Eu. 138:—Pass., ὑδροποτῶν καὶ κατισχναινόμενος Pl. R. 561c, cf. J. AJ 7.8.1:—fut. Med. inf. κατισχνᾰνεῖσθαι A. Pr. 271.

II reduce, weaken

reduce a swelling, Hp. Prog. 23; αἱ Μοῦσαι τὸν ἔρωτα κ. Call. Epigr. 47.3; weaken, ὀσμήν Thphr. Od. 47.

In the wild

κατισχναίνουσα · katischnainousa Aeschylus, Eumenides 137–139
κατισχνανεῖσθαι · katischnaneisthai Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 270–272
κατισχναινόμενος · katischnainomenos Plato, Republic 8.561 (DIORISIS sentence 5088)

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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