The corpus record

ῥοδίζω

rodizo

to be like the rose

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What it meant — LSJ

to be like the rose

to be like the rose, Ath. 15.677e; τῇ ὀσμῇ Dsc. 1.13; in colour, Gp. 14.16.2.

II scent with roses

trans., scent with roses, τὰς συνθέσεις Thphr. Od. 47; τὸ δέρμα Alex.Aphr. Pr. 1.12.

2 deck, with roses, to have oneʼs grave decked with roses

deck a personʼs grave with roses, BCH 24.415 (Bithynia):—Pass., to have oneʼs grave decked with roses, CIG 3754 (Nicaea).

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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