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κηραίνω

keraino1

harm, destroy

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Where it lives

Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k

What it meant

κηραίνω · kērainō — LSJ

harm, destroy, to be injured, spoiled, perish

harm, destroy, A. Supp. 999, Ph. 1.653:—Pass., to be injured, spoiled, perish, Placit. 2.4.12, Hierocl. in CA 14p.451M.

II to be blemished, imperfect

intr., to be blemished or imperfect, Ph. 1.280, al.

In the wild

κηραίνουσι · kērainousi Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 999
κηραίνουςʼ · kērainousʼ Euripides, Heracles 518

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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