The corpus record

ὑποτρέω

upotreo

shrink back, give ground

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Where it lives

Iliad 4 · 0.36/10k
Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k

What it meant

ὑποτρέω · hypotreō — LSJ

shrink back, give ground, shrink before, flee before

shrink back, give ground, Il. 7.217, 15.636, 17.275; ὑποτρέσαι Pi. Fr. 224: c. acc., shrink before, flee before, Il. 17.587. Poet. word, used in late Prose, Plu. Mar. 7, M.Ant. 11.9.

In the wild

ὑπέτρεσαν · hypetresan Iliad 15.636
ὑπέτρεσαν · hypetresan Iliad 17.275
ὑπέτρεσας · hypetresas Iliad 17.587
ὑποτρέσαι · hypotresai Iliad 7.217
ὑποτρέσας · hypotresas Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 11.9.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1857)

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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