The corpus record

θρυπτικός

thruptikos

able to break

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Where it lives

Memorabilia 1 · 0.28/10k
Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

θρυπτικός · thryptikos — LSJ

able to break, crush

able to break or crush, λίθων Dsc. 1.121, cf. Gal. 8.409.

II easily broken, delicate, effeminate

Pass., easily broken: metaph., delicate, effeminate, X. Cyr. 8.8.15 (Comp.), Mem. 1.2.5; σώματα cj. in Max.Tyr. 10.2; θ. τι προσφθέγγεσθαι D.C. 51.12. Adv. -κῶς Ael. NA 2.11, Poll. 6.185.

2 saucy

saucy, πρὸς τοὺς ἐραστάς Ael. VH 3.12.

In the wild

θρυπτικώτεροι · thryptikōteroi Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.8.15 (DIORISIS sentence 4930)
θρυπτικός · thryptikos Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.2.5 (DIORISIS sentence 61)

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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