become soft
become soft, τῶν βοῶν, ἂν εἰς τὰς χηλὰς μαλακιῶσι, προσαλείφειν τὰ ἄκρα τῶν κεράτων Plu. Vind. 2.559f codd. (fort. μαλκίωσι); v. μαλκίω.
The corpus record
μᾰλᾰκ-ιάω
malakiao
become soft
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Where it lives
- Virtues and Vices 2 · 13.49/10k
- Genesis 2 · 0.67/10k
- Nicomachean Ethics 3 · 0.53/10k
- Republic 1 · 0.11/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- μαλακία · malakia Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1145b (DIORISIS sentence 2242)
- μαλακία · malakia Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1150b (DIORISIS sentence 2422)
- μαλακία · malakia Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1152a (DIORISIS sentence 2500)
- μαλακία · malakia Aristotle, Virtues and Vices (DIORISIS sentence 49)
- μαλακία · malakia Aristotle, Virtues and Vices (DIORISIS sentence 54)
- μαλακία · malakia Plato, Republic 3.398 (DIORISIS sentence 1732)
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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.