The corpus record

θραυσ-τός

thraustos

frangible, brittle

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What it meant — LSJ

frangible, brittle, capable of being broken down

frangible, brittle, Ti.Locr. 99c, Thphr. HP 5.3.6; capable of being broken down, πύργος D.C. 36.18. Asclep. ap. Gal. 14.698, S.E. P. 3.33.

2 broken, crushed

broken, crushed, Epigr. in PTeb. 3.4: θραυστόν, τό, = θραῦσμα III, Plin. HN 12.107.

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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