The corpus record

κᾰκ-έμφᾰτος

kakemphatos

ill-sounding

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What it meant — LSJ

ill-sounding, used in a vulgar, equivocal sense

ill-sounding, κακέμφατόν ἐστι τὸ ὑπεξαίρεσις" Demetr.Lac. Herc. 1012.23; esp. of words used in a vulgar or equivocal sense, Quint. 8.3.44, Sch. Luc. Lex. 21; τὸ κ. Sch. Ar. Ach. 258, al. Adv. -τως Sch. Ar. Ra. 48, 426, etc.

= ἄδοξος, Hsch.

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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