LOGOI

The corpus record

καινουργ-ία

kainourgia · ἡ

making new: innovation

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What it meant — LSJ

making new: innovation, renewal, recreation, manufacture

making new: innovation in the state, ταραχὴ καὶ κ. Isoc. 6.50; of Christianity, prob. in OGI 569.18 (Arycanda, iv A. D.); renewal, recreation, τοῦ ὅλου Max.Tyr. 41.4; of manufacture, J. AJ 12.2.9, cf. D.H. Isoc. 9, Hierocl. p.52A.

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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