The corpus record

φαληριάω

phaleriao

to be patched with white

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Where it lives

Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant — LSJ

to be patched with white, crested with white foam, white with breakers, white with foam

to be patched with white, κύματα φαληριόωντα waves crested with white foam, Il. 13.799; φαληριῶσαν σπίλον white with breakers, Lyc. 188: φ. στόρθυγξ white with foam, Id. 491; λίθον λευκὰ φαληριόωντα App.Anth. 3.79 (Posidipp.).

In the wild

φαληριόωντα · phalērioōnta Aristotle, Rhetoric 3
φαληριόωντα · phalērioōnta Iliad 13.799

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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