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ὑποτομ-ή

upotome · ἡ

a cutting off below

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What it meant

ὑποτομ-ή · hypotom-ē — LSJ

a cutting off below, cutting away underneath, trimmed surfaces

a cutting off below, Plu. Sollert. 2.980c; cutting away underneath, Thphr. HP 9.2.7, Heliod ap. Orib. 45.6.3, Leonid. ap. Aët. 7.71: pl., trimmed surfaces of blocks of stone in architecture, IG 7.3073.113, 114 (Lebad., ii B. C.).

II a smaller incision, line, sub-division

a smaller incision or line, Procl. Hyp. 3.11; ὑποτομῆς μόριον sub-division, Theol.Ar. 4.

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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