The corpus record

ὑδρ-αίνω

udraino

water, wash, sprinkle with water, wash oneself, bathe

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Where it lives

Iphigenia in Tauris 2 · 2.41/10k
Electra 1 · 1.32/10k
Odyssey 4 · 0.46/10k

What it meant — LSJ

water, wash, sprinkle with water, wash oneself, bathe, pour, over oneʼs

water, ὑ. [γᾶν], of a river, E. Tr. 226 (lyr.); ὑ. τινά wash, sprinkle with water, Id. IT 54:—Med., wash oneself, bathe, ὑδρηναμένη Od. 4.750, 759; λουτρὰ ὑδράνασθαι χροΐ pour water over oneʼs body, E. El. 157 (lyr.).

II pour

ὑδραίνειν χοάς τινι pour libations to . . , Id. IT 161 (lyr.).

In the wild

ὑδρανάμενον · hydranamenon Euripides, Electra (DIORISIS sentence 58)
ὑδραίνειν · hydrainein Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris *)ifige/neia.50 (DIORISIS sentence 16)
ὑδραίνειν · hydrainein Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris (DIORISIS sentence 67)
ὑδρηναμένη · hydrēnamenē Odyssey 17.48
ὑδρηναμένη · hydrēnamenē Odyssey 17.58
ὑδρηναμένη · hydrēnamenē Odyssey 4.750

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Where it came from

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