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ῥίζα

riza · ἡ

root, roots, roots of the eye

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Where it lives

  • De juventute et senectute, De vita et morte 6 · 32.64/10k
  • De longitudine et brevitate vitae 4 · 22.71/10k
  • Job 10 · 7.5/10k
  • Malachias 1 · 7.2/10k
  • Romans 5 · 7.13/10k
  • 1 Timothy 1 · 6.31/10k
  • Sapientia Salomonis 4 · 5.79/10k
  • Osee 2 · 5.31/10k
  • Esdras I 4 · 4.86/10k
  • Prometheus Bound 2 · 3.4/10k
  • Amos 1 · 3.25/10k
  • Siracides 6 · 3.25/10k

Densest 12 of 56 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

root, roots

root, Od. 10.304, 23.196, etc.; used as a medicine, Il. 11.846; ῥ. ἐλατήριος, of a purgative medicine, Hp. Epid. 5.34: mostly in pl., roots, Il. 12.134, Od. 12.435, etc.; δένδρεα μακρὰ αὐτῇσιν ῥίζησι Il. 9.542: hence

2 roots of the eye, streaks, roots, foundations

metaph., roots of the eye, Od. 9.390 (but ῥίζας ἐν ὄσσοις αἱματῶπας in E. HF 933 prob. bloodshot streaks); the roots or foundations of the earth, Hes. Op. 19; χθόνα . . αὐταῖς ῥ. πνεῦμα κραδαίνοι A. Pr. 1047 (anap.); ἰπούμενος ῥίζαισιν Αἰτναίαις ὕπο ib. 367; of feathers, hair, etc., Pl. Phdr. 251b, Arist. HA 518b14; of the teeth, Id. GA 789a13; γαστρὸς ῥ. ὀμφαλός Id. HA 493a18, etc.

3

τὸν πόλεμον ἐκ ῥιζῶν ἀνῄρηκε ‘root and branch’, Plu. Pomp. 21, cf. Heraclid. Pont. ap. Ath. 12.523f; ἐκ ῥιζῶν ἀπώλεσεν LXX Jb. 31.12; cf. ῥιζόθεν, πρόρριζος.

II that from which anything springs as from a root, foundation, root, original, root, stock, race, family, sect, party

that from which anything springs as from a root, ῥίζαν ἀπείρου τρίταν a third continental foundation, of Libya, Pi. P. 9.8; ἀστέων ῥ., of Cyrene, as the root or original of the Cyrenaic Pentapolis, ib. 4.15; root or stock from which a family springs, ῥ. σπέρματος Id. O. 2.46, cf. I. 8(7).61, A. Ag. 966, S. Aj. 1178, etc.; so, race, family, A. Th. 755 (lyr.), E. IT 610, OGI 383.31 (Nemrud Dagh, i B.C.), etc.; συκοφάντου . . σπέρμα καὶ ῥ. D. 25.48; sect, party, Jul. Gal. 106e; also ῥ. κακῶν E. Fr.

2 base, foundation, base

base, foundation, ῥ. πάντων καὶ βάσις ἁ γᾶ ἐρήρεισται Ti.Locr. 97e, cf. Pl. Ti. 81c; base of a vertical pillar, Procl. Hyp. 3.23; τῶν λόφων Onos. 10.6.

3 root, base

Math., root or base of a series, Anatolius ap.Theol.Ar. 9. (Aeol. βρίζα (q.v.): cf. Goth. waúrts, Lat. radix.)

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Where it came from

  • Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. ῥίζα (scan p. 1336; entry #5313). Root candidates: *wrét-, *wradi-, *wrida-.
  • Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ῥίζα (scan p. 993; entry #6973).
  • Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ῥίζα (scan pp. 1627-1628; entry #4976). Root candidates: *uröt-, *uräd-, *u7d-.

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