The corpus record

ὑπερωτ-άω

uperotao

reply by a question

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Where it lives

Gorgias 1 · 0.38/10k

What it meant

ὑπερωτ-άω · hyperōt-aō — LSJ

reply by a question

reply by a question, Pl. Grg. 483a.

2 ask artfully, slip in a question, ask

ask artfully, or slip in a question, Arg. D. 1.5, and so perh. in Pl. l.c.: perh. simply ask, μαρτυροῦντας τὰ ὑπερωτώμενα IG 2(2).1237.73 (iv B. C.).

In the wild

ὑπερωτῶν · hyperōtōn Plato, Gorgias 483

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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