τρῡπ-άω,
bore, pierce through, ὡς ὅτε τις τρυπῷ (optative) δόρυ νήϊον ἀνὴρ τρυπάνῳ, οἱ δέ τ᾽ ἔνερθεν ὑποσσείουσιν ἱμάντι (compare τρυπανία) [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.384, compare 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ τῶν ἐν κεφαλη—ͅ τρωμάτων” 18, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 387e ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐτρύπησεν τῷ ποδὶ τὴν βελόνην (of a very thin man) [[“Anthologia Graeca” 11.102 (2nd c.AD: Ammianus Epigrammaticus or 1st c.AD: Nicarchus Epigrammaticus), 308 (1st c.AD: Lucillius Epigrammaticus)] Refs 1st c.AD+]; with double accusative, πόνος με τὸν πόδα τ. is stabbing into, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Ocyp.” 169 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; compare ἁλία (B):—passive, τετρυπήσθω τὸ τρῆμα let the hole be bored, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Steril.” 222] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δι᾽ ὠτὸς.. τρυπωμένου through well-bored ear, i. e. open to hear, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 858 (codices 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus, but ῥυπωμένου is probably conjecture)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ ὦτα τετρυπημένος having one's ears pierced for ear-rings, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.1.31 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ψῆφος τετρυπημένη the pebble of condemnation which had a hole in it, opposed to πλήρης, [[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.79, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 68.2, 69.1; ἐτετρύπητο ἄλλη ἔξοδος 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Alex.” 16. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 obscene meaning, [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 5.42, “APl.” 4.243 (1st c.AD: Antistius Epigrammaticus). ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]