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ῥικν-ός

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shrivelled with cold

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What it meant — LSJ

shrivelled with cold, shrivelled, shrunk, contracted, withered, shrivelled, crooked, shrivelled

shrivelled with cold, = πεφρικώς, S. Fr. 1091; shrivelled by old age or disease, shrunk, contracted, Hp. Prog. 2 (s. v.l.), Xenarch. 4.8, Cerc. 2, Call. Fr. 49, etc.: generally, withered, shrivelled, crooked, Ἥφαιστος ῥικνὸς πόδας h.Ap. 317; ἅψεα Opp. C. 2.346; ῥικνοὶ πόδες A.R. 1.669, cf. APl. 16.306 (Leon.); ῥ. καὶ κώδιον shrivelled and (like) leather, IG 14.1363.15 (Rome, iv A.D.).

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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