The corpus record

ῥαπ-τός

raptos

stitched, patched

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Where it lives

Ezechiel 1 · 0.35/10k
Odyssey 2 · 0.23/10k
Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k

What it meant — LSJ

stitched, patched, made of hides sewn together

stitched, patched, χιτών, κνημῖδες, Od. 24.228, 229; ἐν σκυταρίοις ῥ. Anaxil. 18.6; πλοῖα boats made of hides sewn together, Str. 7.4.1.

2 strung together, continuous

metaph., strung together, continuous, ῥαπτῶν ἐπέων ἀοιδοί Pi. N. 2.2; cf. ῥαψῳδός.

II worked with the needle, embroidered carpets, of divers colours

worked with the needle: hence ῥαπτά, τά, embroidered carpets, X. HG 4.1.30; ῥαπτὴ σφαῖρα a ball of divers colours, AP 12.44 (Glauc.).

In the wild

ῥαπτὸν · rhapton Odyssey 24.228
ῥαπτὰς · rhaptas Odyssey 24.229
ῥαπτὰ · rhapta Septuaginta, Ezechiel 16
ῥαπτά · rhapta Xenophon, Hellenica 4.1.30 (DIORISIS sentence 1311)

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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