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ῥώννυμι

ronnumi

strengthen

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Where it lives

  • Machabaeourum III 3 · 5.97/10k
  • Machabaeorum II 4 · 3.46/10k
  • Epistles 4 · 2.36/10k
  • Symposium 2 · 1.15/10k
  • Phaedrus 1 · 0.6/10k
  • Acts 1 · 0.56/10k
  • Phaedo 1 · 0.46/10k
  • History 5 · 0.33/10k
  • Enneads 6 · 0.28/10k
  • Odyssey 2 · 0.23/10k
  • Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2 · 0.19/10k
  • Discourses 1 · 0.13/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

strengthen

strengthen, τροφὴ ῥώννυσι Hp. l.c.; ῥ. τὰν ψυχὰν ποτʼ (πρὸς) ἀλκάν Ti.Locr. 103b; ὁρμάν ib. e; τὰς πόλεις Plu. Per. 19: but

II have strength, might

mostly in pf. Pass. (with pres. sense) ἔρρωμαι, and plpf. ἐρρώμην (as impf.):—have strength or might, γέροντές ἐσμεν κοὐδαμῶς ἐρρώμεθα E. Heracl. 636; ἐρρῶσθαι τὴν ψυχήν X. HG 3.4.29; so ἐρρώσθη χρήμασιν Plu. Publ. 23.

2 to be eager, enthusiastic, to be eager

to be eager, enthusiastic, glossed by προθυμεῖσθαι, Cratin. 411; ἔρρωντο ἐς τὸν πόλεμον Th. 2.8, cf. 8.78, 4.72: c. inf., to be eager to do, ἔρρωτο πᾶς ξυνεπιλαμβάνειν Id. 2.8, cf. Lys. 13.31, Pl. Smp. 176b.

3 to be in good health, farewell

to be in good health, Th. 7.15: freq. in imper. ἔρρωσο, farewell, the usual way of ending a letter, as in X. Cyr. 4.5.33, and at the close of Pl. Ep. 1, 2, and 10; ἔρρωσο πολλά Men. Georg. 84; ἔρρωσθε Id. Pk. 50; also φράζειν τινὶ ἐρρῶσθαι Pl. Phd. 61b, D. 18.152, 19.248; εἰ ἔρρωσαι . . καλῶς ἂν ἔχοι, ἐρρώμεθα δὲ καὶ αὐτοί PPetr. 2p.27 (iii B.C.); εἰ ἔρρωσθε εὖ ἂν ἔχοι IG 7.413 (Oropus, Senatus consultum, i B.C.), cf. SIG 768 (Epist. Aug.).

4

freq. in part. ἐρρωμένος (q.v.).

In the wild

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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. ῥώννυμι (scan p. 1347; entry #5356).
  • Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ῥώννυμι (scan p. 1001; entry #7031).
  • Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ῥώννυμι (scan p. 1640; entry #5017).

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