The corpus record

παρηβ-άω

parebao

to be past oneʼs prime, to be elderly

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Where it lives

Histories 2 · 0.11/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
History 1 · 0.07/10k

What it meant

παρηβ-άω · parēb-aō — LSJ

to be past oneʼs prime, to be elderly

to be past oneʼs prime, to be elderly, Hdt. 3.53, Th. l.c., J. BJ 7.8.7, Luc. Tim. 2, etc. ; π. τὸ σῶμα Longus 3.15 : metaph., χρόνος παρήβησεν A. Ag. 985 (lyr.).

2 lose strength

metaph., lose strength, οἶνος Luc. Lex. 13.

II to be on the point of puberty

to be on the point of puberty, Gal. 14.755.

In the wild

παρήβησεν · parēbēsen Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.1 (DIORISIS sentence 179)
παρηβήκεε · parēbēkee Herodotus, Histories 3.53.1 (DIORISIS sentence 3258)
παρηβηκώς · parēbēkōs Herodotus, Histories 3.53.4 (DIORISIS sentence 3267)
παρηβήκατε · parēbēkate Thucydides, History 2.44.4 (DIORISIS sentence 1254)

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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