stitcher, patcher, cobbler
stitcher, patcher, cobbler, Poll. 7.42.
2 planner
metaph., ῥ. φόνου planner of murder, A. Ag. 1604.
The corpus record
ῥᾰφ-εύς
rapheus · ὁ
stitcher, patcher, cobbler
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Where it lives
- Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
- Statesman 1 · 0.59/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ῥαφεύς · rhapheus Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1604
- ῥαφῇ · rhaphēi Plato, Statesman 280
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.