The corpus record

ῥιζοτομ-έω

rizotomeo

cut, prune the roots, cut up by the roots, extirpate

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What it meant — LSJ

cut, prune the roots

cut or prune the roots of a tree by digging round it, συκῆ ῥιζοτομηθεῖσα Thphr. CP 1.17.10, etc.

II cut up by the roots, extirpate, cut and gather, roots, gather roots

cut up by the roots, extirpate, D.S. 32.4: esp. for Medic. purposes, ῥ. βοτάνας cut and gather their roots, Hp. Ep. 16, cf. Thphr. HP 4.5.1; gather roots for food, Str. 16.4.9: metaph., Philostr. VA 7.26.

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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