cut off the hand of, have oneʼs hand, hands cut off
cut off the hand of, τινας D.S. 25.3, cf. 33.14, App. Hisp. 68:—Pass., have oneʼs hand or hands cut off, Str. 15.1.54, Plu. Par.min. 2.305c.
The corpus record
χειρο-κοπέω
cheirokopeo
cut off the hand of
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What it meant — LSJ
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.