The corpus record

χειρουργ-ός

cheirourgos

working, doing by hand, practising a handicraft

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Where it lives

Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2 · 0.19/10k

What it meant — LSJ

working, doing by hand, practising a handicraft, art, artificers, artists

working or doing by hand, Plu. Vind. 2.564e: practising a handicraft or art, περὶ γραφικήν Ael. NA 17.9; οἱ χ. artificers, artists, Id. VH 14.47, etc.; also χ. τέχναι Lib. Or. 25.36.

II surgeon

χειρουργός, ὁ, surgeon, Plu. Frat. 2.486c, Ptol. Tetr. 180, Gal. 10.455, Artem. 4.2, AP 11.280 (Pall.).

In the wild

χειρουργῶν · cheirourgōn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.2 (DIORISIS sentence 5195)
χειρουργῶν · cheirourgōn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.2 (DIORISIS sentence 5018)

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.

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