The corpus record

κᾰκύνω

kakuno

damage, turn bad, corrupt

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Where it lives

Timaeus 1 · 0.42/10k
Enneads 4 · 0.19/10k

What it meant — LSJ

damage, turn bad

damage, in prov., κ. τὸν πηλόν· τὸν ἄξιον ὕβρεως ὑβρίζειν, Suid.; τὰς τύχας Antioch.Astr. in Cat.Cod.Astr. 8(3).105:—Pass., turn bad, Thphr. Od. 56.

2 corrupt, to be corrupted, become bad, show cowardice

in moral sense, corrupt, Com.Adesp. 138:—usu. in Pass., to be corrupted, D.C. 60.2: esp. become bad, E. Hec. 251, Pl. Ti. 42c; of soldiers, show cowardice, v.l. for μαλακύνω, X. Cyr. 6.3.27.

3 to be reproached

Pass. also, to be reproached, E. Hipp. 686.

In the wild

κακύνοιτο · kakynoito Plato, Timaeus 42 (DIORISIS sentence 301)
κακυνθέντες · kakynthentes Plotinus, Enneads 3.2 (DIORISIS sentence 1482)
κακυνόμενοί · kakynomenoi Plotinus, Enneads 3.2 (DIORISIS sentence 1446)
κακυνθεῖσα · kakyntheisa Plotinus, Enneads 6.7 (DIORISIS sentence 5769)
κακυνθῆναι · kakynthēnai Plotinus, Enneads 6.7 (DIORISIS sentence 5762)

Where it came from

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