The corpus record

πακτ-όω

paktoo

fasten, close

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Where it lives

Ajax 1 · 1.27/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

πακτ-όω · pakt-oō — LSJ

fasten, close, make fast

fasten, close, Archil. 187; δῶμα πάκτου make fast the house, S. Aj. 579; μοχλοῖς καὶ κλῄθροισι τὰ προπύλαια π. Ar. Lys. 265.

2 stop up, caulk

stop up, caulk, τὰ τετρημένα ῥακίοις Id. V. 128.

3 bind fast

bind fast, λαίφεα AP 10.23 (Autom.).

In the wild

ἐπάκτωσαν · epaktōsan Herodotus, Histories 2.96.2 (DIORISIS sentence 2209)
πάκτου · paktou Sophocles, Ajax 578–579

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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