The corpus record

ῥυπ-τικός

ruptikos

fit for cleansing from dirt

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Where it lives

De Sensu et Sensibilibus 1 · 1.28/10k
Timaeus 1 · 0.42/10k

What it meant — LSJ

fit for cleansing from dirt, detergent, cleansing, clearing, fit for cleaning, off

fit for cleansing from dirt, ῥυπτικωτάτη κόνις Plu. QConv. 2.697a; -κὴ δύναμις detergent, Gal. 10.565: c. gen., ῥ. τοῦ φάρυγγος cleansing or clearing the throat, Arist. Pr. 903b29, cf. Pl. Ti. 65d, Thphr. CP 6.1.3: but c. gen. objecti, ῥ. ξηρότητος fit for cleaning it off, Arist. Sens. 443a1.

2 purgative

purgative, Id. Pr. 873b1.

In the wild

ῥυπτικὸν · rhyptikon Aristotle, De Sensu et Sensibilibus (DIORISIS sentence 119)
ῥυπτικὰ · rhyptika Plato, Timaeus 65 (DIORISIS sentence 609)

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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