= Synagoge epsilon690; Photius, Lexicon epsilon1591 Theodoridis. The headword (present indicative middle, third person singular, of e)pikni/zw) must be quoted from somewhere but is not independently attested. In general, middle and passive forms of this verb are confined in the surviving literature to medical and botanical texts, in reference to the grating or crushing of vegetable matter; see, e.g., Theophrastus On the Causes of Plants 5.2.4; Dioscorides 1.127.1.
For the more common un-prefixed form of this verb, along with a literary attestation of an active form of the current verb, see kappa 1874.