The corpus record

ξῠλο-κοπέω

xulokopeo

cut wood, make a clearance

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Where it lives

Discourses 2 · 0.27/10k

What it meant

ξῠλο-κοπέω · xylo-kopeō — LSJ

cut wood, make a clearance

cut wood, make a clearance, PLille 5.24 (iii B. C.).

II beat with a stick, cudgel, fustuarium

beat with a stick, cudgel, of the Roman fustuarium, Plb. 6.37.1 (Pass.), 6.38.1 : generally, Arr. Epict. 3.7.33 :—Pass., ib. 4.4.37, POxy. 706.13 (ii A. D.).

In the wild

ξυλοκοπῆσαι · xylokopēsai Epictetus, Discourses 3.7 (DIORISIS sentence 4199)
ξυλοκοπούμενον · xylokopoumenon Epictetus, Discourses 4.4 (DIORISIS sentence 6477)

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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