fool-hardy, reckless
fool-hardy, reckless, ἔργον X. Mem. 1.3.9; ναυτιλία Alciphr. 1.3; of persons, Id. 3.52, Poll. 1.179; τὸ ῥ. Ph. 1.326, App. BC 5.84. Adv. -νως ib. 1.103, POxy. 2131.16 (iii A.D., ῥειψ-).
The corpus record
ῥιψοκίνδῡν-ος
ripsokindunos
fool-hardy, reckless
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Where it lives
- Memorabilia 2 · 0.56/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ῥιψοκίνδυνον · rhipsokindynon Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.3.10 (DIORISIS sentence 268)
- ῥιψοκινδύνων · rhipsokindynōn Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.3.9 (DIORISIS sentence 262)
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.