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ὑπονέμομαι

uponemomai

eat away beneath

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What it meant

ὑπονέμομαι · hyponemomai — LSJ

eat away beneath, secretly

eat away beneath or secretly, ἔλαθεν πῦρ ὑπονειμάμενον AP 7.444 (Theaet.); but ὑπονεμησαμένη, though found in codd. in Hp. Oss. 18, is f. l. for ὑπονησαμένη, v. ὑπονέω.

II undermine, deceive

undermine (cf. ὑπόνομος): metaph., deceive, γυναῖκας Epich. 9.

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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