The corpus record

ῥίζ-ωμα

rizoma · τό

the mass of roots

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Where it lives

Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
Job 1 · 0.75/10k
Psalmi 1 · 0.29/10k
Politics 1 · 0.15/10k

What it meant — LSJ

the mass of roots

the mass of roots of a tree, Thphr. CP 3.3.4.

II element

element, τέσσαρα μὲν πάντων ῥιζώματα πρῶτον ἄκουε Emp. 6.1; ἀενάου φύσεως ῥ. Pythag. 15.

2 stem, race

stem, race, A. Th. 413; θείων δʼ ἀπʼ ἀμφοῖν ἔκγονον ῥιζωμάτων, i.e. on the side of both parents, Theodect. 3.

In the wild

ῥίζωμʼ · rhizōmʼ Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 412–413
ῥιζωμάτων · rhizōmatōn Aristotle, Politics 1255a (DIORISIS sentence 134)
ῥιζώματα · rhizōmata Septuaginta, Job 36
ῥίζωμά · rhizōma Septuaginta, Psalmi 51

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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