The corpus record

ῥοπᾰλ-ικός

ropalikos

like a club

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What it meant — LSJ

like a club, thicker towards the end, versus rhopalicus, in which each word is one syllable longer than that before

like a club, i.e. thicker towards the end: hence, versus rhopalicus, a verse in which each word is one syllable longer than that before (such as Il. 3.182), Serv. in Gramm.Lat. 4.467K. (rhopalius Sacerd. ib. 6.505 K.).

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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