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τίλλω

tillo

to pluck, tear, pick

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. τίλλω · tillō — Beekes

τίλλω [v.] ‘to pluck, tear, pick’ (Il; rare in Att. prose). «Ὁ» eVAR Aor. τῖλαι, -ασθαι, fut. τιλῶ, -οὔμαι (com., etc.), aor. pass. τιλθῆναι (Ar.), τιλῆναι (LXX, pap.), perf. med. τέτιλμαι, especially the ptc. τετιλμένος (Ar., LXX), act. téttAka (Hell.). eCOMP Also with napa-, ano-, περι-, etc. As a second member in vaxo-ttA toc ‘whose fleece has been plucked, from whom the wool has been plucked off, also -τίλτης, … — [Beekes, s.v. τίλλω, p. 1535]

2. τίλλω · tillō — Chantraine

τίλλω, -ouat : Hom., ion.-att., etc, aor. τῖλαι, -uoflar (com., etc.), fut. τιλῷ, -obux (ibid), aor. pass. τιλθῆναι (Ar.) et τιλῆναι (LAXX, pap., etc.), pari. moyen τέτιλμαι surtout au participe τετιλμένος (Ar. LXX, etc.), actif τέτιλκα (hellén.), «arracher », notamment «arracher les cheveux », au moyen «s'arracher les cheveux »; + plumer, épiler, rmaltraiter » ; pour des emplois figurés, cf. Taillardat, Images … — [Chantraine, s.v. τίλλω, p. 1138]

3. τίλλω · tillō — Frisk

τίλλω, -ομαι (seit Il.; schr selten in att. Prosa), Aor. τῖλαι, -ασϑαι, Fut. τιλῶ, -οὔμαι (Kom. usw.), Aor. Pass. τελϑῆναι (Ar.), τιλῆναι (LXX, Pap. u.a.), Perf. Med. τέτιλμαι, bes. Ptz. τετιλμένος (Ar., LXX usw.), Akt. τέτιλκα (hell.), auch m. παρα-, ἀπο-, πεοι- U.a., rupfen, (sich) ausrupfen, raufen, abpflücken’. — Davon 1. τιλμός (ἀπο-, raga-) m. “das Ausrupfen’ (A. in Iyr., Hp., Men., Pap.). 2. τίλμα (ἀπό-, … — [Frisk, s.v. τίλλω, p. 1872]

4. τίλλω · tillō — LSJ

pluck, pull out, pluck out oneʼs

pluck or pull out hair, etc., πολιὰς δʼ ἄρʼ ἀνὰ τρίχας ἕλκετο χερσί, τίλλων ἐκ κεφαλῆς Il. 22.78; τίλλε κόμην ib. 406; τρίχας Men. Epit. 271, Her. 5; ἐρέβινθον PCair.Zen. 719.6 (iii B.C.); τ. στάχυας καὶ ἐσθίειν Ev.Matt. 12.1; τ. χόρτον τοῖς κτῆσι PFlor. 321.47 (iii A.D.):— Med., χαίτας τίλλεσθαι pluck out oneʼs hair, Od. 10.567.

2 from which, are plucked, pluck, pluck, off, pluck, have oneʼs hair plucked out

with acc. of that from which the hair or feathers are plucked, τίλλειν πέλειαν, of birds of prey, 15.527, cf. Hdt. 3.76; κίρκον εἰσορῶ . . χηλαῖς κάρα τίλλοντα A. Pers. 209; τίλλουσι τὴν γλαῦκα, of small birds attacking the owl, Arist. HA 609a15; so of the cuckoo, ib. 618a29 (Pass.); as a description of an idle fellow, τίλλων ἑαυτόν Ar. Pax 546, cf. Ra. 428; of a cook, pluck a fowl, Eub. 150.5, cf. Plu. Apophth. Lac. 2.233a; also τ. λαγών Ar. Fr. 212; τ. πλάτανον pluck its leaves off, Plu. Them.

3

c. acc. cogn., τίλματα τ. Plu. Aud. 2.48b, cf. Herod. 2.70.

4 play

τ. μέλη pluck the harp-strings, play harp-tunes, Cratin. 256 (lyr.).

5 pick so as to extract fibre

pick so as to extract fibre, τετίλκασι στιππύου δέσμας σ PCair.Zen. l.c.

6 cirrous

νεφέλιον παρατεταμένον καὶ τιλλόμενον cirrous, Thphr. Sign. 43.

II tear oneʼs hair in sorrow for

since tearing the hair was a usual expression of sorrow, τίλλεσθαί τινα tear oneʼs hair in sorrow for any one, τόν γʼ ἄλοχός τε φίλη καὶ πότνια μήτηρ τιλλέσθην Il. 24.711: without acc., τιλλόμενοι καὶ κλαίοντες Phld. Ir. p.36 W.

III pluck, vex, annoy

metaph., pluck, vex, annoy, Anacr. 13B; στέφανον τ., = τοὺς νόμους λυμαίνεσθαι, Pythag. ap. Porph. VP 42:—Pass., ὑπὸ συκοφαντῶν τίλλεσθαι, with allusion to a birdʼs feathers, Ar. Av. 285. (Not found in Att. Prose.)

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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. τίλλω (scan pp. 1535-1536; entry #6073).
  • Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. τίλλω (scan p. 1138; entry #8013).
  • Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. τίλλω (scan p. 1872; entry #5667).

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