LOGOI

The corpus record

ῥοικός

roikos1

crooked, bow, curvature

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What it meant — LSJ

crooked, bow, curvature

crooked, κορύνα, λαγωβόλον, Theoc. 7.18, 4.49; περὶ κνήμας ῥοικός bow-legged, Archil. 58.4 (v.l. ῥαιβός, q.v.); ῥ. μηροί Hp. Mochl. 22; τὸ ῥ. curvature of the leg, Arist. SE 181b38.—Ion. word, acc. to EM 242.2 (cod. Leid., where ῥυκός).

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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