The corpus record

κᾰκό-φημος

kakophemos

ill-sounding, ominous

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What it meant — LSJ

ill-sounding, ominous, evil, ominous words, foul-mouthed, with evil words, abusively

ill-sounding, ominous, Sch. S. Aj. 214; τὸ κ. evil or ominous words, J. BJ 6.5.3; of persons, foul-mouthed, Ptol. Tetr. 166. Adv. -μως with evil words, abusively, Man. 5.323.

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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