1. κᾰκό-φονος · kako-phonos — LSJ
gloss on ἀπόφονος, Sch. E. Or. 163.
The corpus record
κᾰκό-φονος
kakophonos
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What it meant
2. κᾰκόφων-ος · kakophōn-os — LSJ
ill-sounding, not producing agreeable sounds, with a bad voice, cacophonous
ill-sounding, not producing agreeable sounds, τὰ ξηρὰ κ. Arist. Aud. 802b23; with a bad voice, τραγῳδός D.T. 631.21, Phlp. in de An. 533.32; opp. εὔφωνος, Phld. Po. Herc. 994Fr. 11; of words, cacophonous, D.H. Comp. 12, cf. 16 (Sup.), D.T. 631.20; τὸ κ., = κακοφωνία, Sch. Ar. Eq. 248.
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.