The corpus record

καταράομαι

kataraomai

call down curses upon

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Where it lives

Epistula Jeremiae 1 · 7.94/10k
Malachias 1 · 7.2/10k
Ecclesiastes 2 · 4.42/10k
Regnorum II 7 · 4.33/10k
On the Navy-Boards 1 · 3.89/10k
Against Andocides 1 · 3.85/10k
Siracides 7 · 3.79/10k
Job 5 · 3.75/10k
Proverbia 3 · 2.7/10k
Numeri 6 · 2.6/10k
Esdras II 3 · 2.53/10k
Alcibiades 2 1 · 2.34/10k

Densest 12 of 46 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

καταρ-άομαι · katar-aomai — LSJ

call down curses upon, called down, curses, pray, curse, execrate, accursed

call down curses upon, τῷ δὲ κατᾱρῶνται πάντες βροτοὶ ἄλγεʼ ὀπίσσω Od. 19.330; πολλὰ κατηρᾶτο he called down many curses, Il. 9.454; κεφαλῇ πολλὰ κ. Hdt. 2.39; κ. ὁ κῆρυξ εἴ τις ἐξαπατᾷ λέγων D. 23.97; κ. τὴν Ἶσίν τινι AP 11.115 (Nicarch.): c. inf., καταρῶνται δʼ ἀπολέσθαι they pray that he may perish, Thgn. 277; κ. μήτε πλοῖα στεγανὰ γενέσθαι Arist. Fr. 554, cf. 148: c. dat., curse, execrate, τῷ ἡλίῳ Hdt. 4.184, cf. Ar. Nu. 871, Ra. 746, D. 19.292 codd., etc.: c. acc., LXX Ge. 12.3, al., Ev.Mar

In the wild

καταρᾷ · katarai Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 703)
καταράσωμαι · katarasōmai Aristophanes, Frogs 745–746
καταρασάμενος · katarasamenos Aristophanes, Lysistrata 2.812 (DIORISIS sentence 604)
καταρασάμενος · katarasamenos Aristophanes, Wasps (DIORISIS sentence 438)
καταράσαινθʼ · katarasainthʼ Demosthenes, Against Androtion 77 (DIORISIS sentence 280)
καταρᾶται · kataratai Demosthenes, Against Aristocrates 97 (DIORISIS sentence 386)

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Where it came from

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