The corpus record

καινουργ-έω

kainourgeo

make new, re-create, begin something new

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Where it lives

On the Cavalry Commander 1 · 1.74/10k
De Mundo 1 · 1.58/10k
Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k

What it meant — LSJ

make new, re-create

make new, Alciphr. 3.3; re-create, τινα Zos.Alch. p.108 B.

2 begin something new, new plan art thou meditating?, speak new, strange, coin, make innovations, all attempts at alteration

begin something new, τι Hp. VM 21; τί καινουργεῖς; what new plan art thou meditating? E. IA 2 (anap.); κ. λόγον speak new, strange words, ib. 838; coin, ὄνομα Dam. Pr. 439: abs., ἐπὶ τὸ κ. φέρου Antiph. 29: usu. in bad sense, make innovations, περί τι X. HG 6.2.16, cf. D.H. 11.21:—Pass., τὰ καινουργούμενα all attempts at alteration, Arist. Mu. 398a35.

In the wild

καινουργούμενα · kainourgoumena Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 140)
ἐκαινούργει · ekainourgei Xenophon, Hellenica 6.2.16 (DIORISIS sentence 2579)
κεκαινουργηκότας · kekainourgēkotas Xenophon, On the Cavalry Commander 3.5 (DIORISIS sentence 91)

Where it came from

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