The corpus record

ταινι-όω

tainioo

bind with a headband

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Where it lives

Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k
History 1 · 0.07/10k

What it meant — LSJ

bind with a headband, to be crowned, wear a headband

bind with a headband, esp. as a conqueror, Th. 4.121, X. HG 5.1.3:—Pass., to be crowned, Ar. Ra. 395, D.S. 17.101: metaph., D.C. 39.25; ὀμφαλὸς τεταινιωμένος Str. 9.3.6:—Med., wear a headband, Ar. Ec. 1032.

In the wild

ἐταινίουν · etainioun Thucydides, History 4.121.1 (DIORISIS sentence 3295)
ἐταινίωσεν · etainiōsen Xenophon, Hellenica 5.1.3 (DIORISIS sentence 1860)

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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