handiwork
handiwork, a word used by Gorgias, Pl. Grg. 450b, ubi v. Sch.
II manufactured article, one must perform an operation
manufactured article, D.H. Pomp. 1.7 χειρουργ-ητέον, one must perform an operation, Antyll. ap. Orib. 4.4.7.
The corpus record
χειρούργ-ημα
cheirourgema · τό
handiwork, manufactured article, one must perform an operation
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Where it lives
- Gorgias 1 · 0.38/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- χειρούργημα · cheirourgēma Plato, Gorgias 450
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.