handicraft
handicraft, βαναυσία καὶ χ. Pl. R. 590c: pl., γεωργιῶν ἀπέχεσθαι . . καὶ χ. ib. 547d; αἱ περὶ χειροτεχνίας ἐπιστῆμαι Id. Plt. 304b.
The corpus record
χειροτεχν-ία
cheirotechnia · ἡ
handicraft
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Where it lives
- Statesman 1 · 0.59/10k
- Republic 2 · 0.23/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- χειροτεχνιῶν · cheirotechniōn Plato, Republic 8.547 (DIORISIS sentence 4797)
- χειροτεχνία · cheirotechnia Plato, Republic 9.590 (DIORISIS sentence 5794)
- χειροτεχνίας · cheirotechnias Plato, Statesman 304
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.