The corpus record

κακότεχνος

kakotechnos

using evil practices, artful

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Where it lives

Sapientia Salomonis 2 · 2.9/10k
Machabaeorum IV 1 · 1.3/10k
Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant — LSJ

using evil practices, artful, lascivious, with bad art

using evil practices, artful, δόλος Il. 15.14: esp. in mal. part., lascivious, AP 5.128 (Autom.): Sup., ib. 131 (Phld., v.l. κατατ-); of songs, Plu. QConv. 2.706d. Adv. -νως with bad art, Ph. 1.195.

In the wild

κακότεχνος · kakotechnos Iliad 15.14
κακοτέχνων · kakotechnōn Septuaginta, Machabaeorum IV 6
κακότεχνος · kakotechnos Septuaginta, Sapientia Salomonis 15
κακότεχνον · kakotechnon Septuaginta, Sapientia Salomonis 1

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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