knavish trick, fraud, crime
knavish trick, fraud, Pl. Lg. 933e, D. 18.31, 24.86, etc.; τὰ ἐν τοῖς συμβολαίοις κ. Pl. R. 426e; crime, Antipho 5.10, etc.
The corpus record
κᾰκούργ-ημα
kakourgema · τό
knavish trick, fraud
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Where it lives
- Athenian Constitution 1 · 0.61/10k
- Republic 2 · 0.23/10k
- Laws 2 · 0.19/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- κακούργημα · kakourgēma Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..66 (DIORISIS sentence 796)
- κακουργήματι · kakourgēmati Plato, Laws 934
- κακουργήματα · kakourgēmata Plato, Laws 677
- κακουργημάτων · kakourgēmatōn Plato, Republic 1.344 (DIORISIS sentence 518)
- κακουργήματα · kakourgēmata Plato, Republic 4.426 (DIORISIS sentence 2286)
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.