The corpus record

πᾰλίρ-ροος

palirroos

back-flowing, refluent

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What it meant

πᾰλίρ-ροος · palir-roos — LSJ

back-flowing, refluent, ebbing and flowing

back-flowing, refluent, κλύδων E. IT 1397; ebbing and flowing, metaph., of the breath, ἀήρ Opp. H. 2.398; ἄσθμα Tryph. 76.

II recurring, returning upon oneʼs head

metaph., recurring, returning upon oneʼs head, πότμος E. HF 739 (lyr.), cf. El. 1155 (lyr.).

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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