The corpus record

πᾰλινδρομ-ία

palindromia · ἡ

running back, going backwards

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Where it lives

Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant — LSJ

running back, going backwards, restoration, striking inwards, relapses

running back, going backwards, AP 6.307 (Phan.), Iamb. in Nic. p.76P.; τοῦ ἡλίου D.L. 7.152; τῆς φύσιος ἡ π. restoration, Aret. CD 1.3; striking inwards, of an abscess or eruption, Hp. Prorrh. 2.7: in pl., relapses, Id. Epid. 4.42.

In the wild

παλινδρομίᾳ · palindromiai Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 6486)

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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