The corpus record

κᾰκηγόρ-ος

kakegoros

evil-speaking, abusive, slanderous

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Where it lives

Phaedrus 1 · 0.6/10k

What it meant

κᾰκηγόρ-ος · kakēgor-os — LSJ

evil-speaking, abusive, slanderous, abusive of

evil-speaking, abusive, slanderous, Pi. O. 1.53; γλῶττα Pl. Phdr. 254e; κ. τινος abusive of one, Ath. 5.220a: Comp. κακηγορίστερος Pherecr. 96: Sup. -ίστατος Ecphant. 5. Adv. -ρως Poll. 8.81.

In the wild

κακηγόρον · kakēgoron Plato, Phaedrus 254 (DIORISIS sentence 490)

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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