1. ῥαίω · rhaiō — Chantraine
The corpus record
ῥαίω
raio
aor
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Where it lives
- Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
- Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k
- Odyssey 7 · 0.81/10k
- Discourses 1 · 0.13/10k
- Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k
What it meant
2. ῥαίω · rhaiō — Chantraine
3. ῥαίω · rhaiō — Frisk
4. ῥαίω · rhaiō — LSJ
break, shiver, shatter, ῥ. νῆα wreck a ship, Od. 8.569, 13.151, 23.235; ῥ. τινά cause one to suffer shipwreck, 5.221:—in Pass., ῥαιόμενος suffering shipwreck, 6.326; νηῦς ῥαισθεῖσα A.R. 2.1112; also φάσγανον ἐρραίσθη it was shivered, Il. 16.339; τῷ κέ οἵ ἐγκέφαλός γε διὰ σπέος . . ῥαίοιτο πρὸς οὔδεϊ his brain would be dashed on the ground throughout the cavern, Od. 9.459; so αἰὼν διʼ ὀστέων ἐρραίσθη the marrow spurted through the bones, Pi. Fr. 111.
generally, destroy, A.R. 1.617:—Pass., to be broken down, crushed by suffering, ὅταν . . ῥαισθῇ A. Pr. 191, AP 7.529 (Theodorid.), etc. (anap.), cf. S. Tr. 268.
In the wild
- ῥαισθῇ · rhaisthēi Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 190–192
- ῥᾴων · rhaiōn Epictetus, Discourses 4.9 (DIORISIS sentence 7024)
- ἐρραίσθη · erraisthē Iliad 16.339
- ῥαῖσαι · rhaisai Odyssey 13.151
- ῥαισέμεναι · rhaisemenai Odyssey 13.177
- ῥαίσῃ · rhaisēi Odyssey 23.235
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Where it came from
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ῥαίω (scan p. 985; entry #6925).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ῥαίω (scan p. 1612; entry #4942).