The corpus record — Latin

griphus

griphus · m

an intricate

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Where it lives

Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

grīphus — Lewis & Short

grīphus, i, m., = gri=fos (a net; hence transf.),

I an intricate or puzzling question, a riddle, enigma (post-class. and very rare): griphos dissolvere, Gell. 1, 4, 4; v. App. Flor. 9; Aus. Idyll. 11.

In the wild

griphos Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 1.2.4
griphos Apuleius, Florida 9.p2

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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