The corpus record

θρῴσκω

throsko

leap, spring

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Where it lives

Shield of Heracles 3 · 9.27/10k
Trachiniae 3 · 4.13/10k
Orestes 3 · 3.06/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 2 · 2.41/10k
Iliad 22 · 1.97/10k
Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k
Libation Bearers 1 · 1.86/10k
Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
Oedipus at Colonus 1 · 0.97/10k
Odyssey 3 · 0.35/10k

What it meant — LSJ

leap, spring, tossed

poet. Verb, leap, spring, χαμᾶζε θορών Il. 10.528; ἐκ δίφροιο 8.320; ἀπὸ λέκτροιο Od. 23.32; ἰχθὺς θρῴσκων κατὰ κῦμα Il. 21.126; of arrows, ἀπὸ νευρῆφι δʼ ὀϊστοὶ θρῷσκον 15.314, cf. 470, 16.773; of beans tossed from the winnowing shovel, ἀπὸ πτυόφιν θρῴσκωσιν κύαμοι 13.589; of the oar, S. OC 718 (lyr.).

2 leap upon, assault, attack

folld. by Prep., leap upon, assault, ἐπὶ Τρώεσσι θόρον Il. 8.252, cf. 15.380; εἴς τινα A.R. 1.1296; πλησίον τινός E. Or. 257 (in this sense Hom. always uses aor.); of a recurring illness, attack, S. Tr. 1028 (lyr.).

3 rush, dart, over, to, leap up, melt

rush, dart, Pi. P. 9.119; πεδίον over the plain, E. Ba. 873 (lyr.); δόμους to the house, S. Tr. 58: metaph., λόγοι πεδάρσιοι θρῴσκουσι leap up into air, i.e. melt away, A. Ch. 846.

II mount, impregnate, the sire

trans., = θόρνυμαι, mount, impregnate, κνώδαλα Id. Fr. 15; ὁ θρῴσκων the sire, Id. Eu. 660; cf. θορός, θορή.

In the wild

θρῴσκων · thrōiskōn Aeschylus, Eumenides 660–661
θρῴσκουσι · thrōiskousi Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 845–846
θρῴσκει · thrōiskei Euripides, Bacchae 873–876
θρῴσκων · thrōiskōn Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 1 (DIORISIS sentence 772)
θορών · thorōn Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris *)/aggelos (DIORISIS sentence 839)
θρῴσκουσί · thrōiskousi Euripides, Orestes (DIORISIS sentence 162)

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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. θρῴσκω (scan pp. 607-608; entry #2620).
Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. θρῴσκω (scan p. 458; entry #3234). Root candidates: *dhor-.

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