The corpus record

ῥαδινός

radinos

slender, taper

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Where it lives

Constitution of the Lacedaemonians 1 · 2.06/10k
Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k
Enneads 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant — LSJ

slender, taper

slender, taper, ἱμάσθλη Il. 23.583; ἄκοντες Stesich. 53; κίονες Ibyc. 58; of plants, ὄρπαξ Sapph. 104; φοῖνιξ Thgn. 6; κυπάρισσοι Theoc. 11.45, 27.46.

2 taper, slim, slender

of the limbs or body, taper, slim, slender, πόδες h.Cer. 183, Hes. Th. 195; χεῖρες Thgn. 1002, cf. Ath.Mitt. 17.272 (Athens, ii A.D.); μηροί Anacr. 66; πῶλοι Id. 165 (unless in signf. 3); βραδίναν Ἀφροδίταν Sapph. 90; παῖς Theoc. 10.24; σώματα X. Lac. 2.5; ῥ. τῷ μήκει τοῦ σώματος Plu. QConv. 2.723d; of the neck, Aret. SD 1.8; τράχηλος AP 5.131 (Phld.); πτέρυγες (of a cicada) ib. 7.200 (Nic.).

3 soft, tender, tender, mobile

generally, soft, tender, ῥαδινῇ τῇ κόμῃ, of ivy, Ach.Tat. 1.15; δέρμα προβάτου ὡς ὅτι ῥαδινώτατον Id. 3.21: metaph., tender or mobile, ὄσσε A. Pr. 401 (lyr.); and the Gramm. (Sch.A. l.c.) give εὐκίνητος among other interpretations.

In the wild

ῥαδινὰν · rhadinan Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 400–402
ῥαδινοῖσιν · rhadinoisin Theogony 194
ῥαδινήν · rhadinēn Iliad 23.583
ῥαδινὸν · rhadinon Plotinus, Enneads 3.2 (DIORISIS sentence 1516)
ῥαδινὰ · rhadina Xenophon, Constitution of the Lacedaemonians 2.5 (DIORISIS sentence 29)

Where it came from

Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. ῥαδινός (scan pp. 1321-1322; entry #5273).
Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ῥαδινός (scan p. 984; entry #6916).
Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ῥαδινός (scan p. 1610; entry #4932).

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