The corpus record

ἔγ-καυμα

egkauma · τό

mark burnt in, sore from burning

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Where it lives

Timaeus 1 · 0.42/10k

What it meant

ἔγ-καυμα · eg-kauma — LSJ

mark burnt in, sore from burning

mark burnt in, sore from burning, Luc. DDeor. 15[13].2, al.

II encaustic picture

encaustic picture, Pl. Ti. 26c, JHS 41.195 (Delos, ii B. C.), Dicaearch. 1.8, Plu. Amat. 2.759c.

III ulcer in the eye

ulcer in the eye, Aët. 7.27.

In the wild

ἐγκαύματα · enkaumata Plato, Timaeus 26 (DIORISIS sentence 135)

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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