καταστροφ-εύς · katastroph-eus — LSJ
one who ruins, spoils, bungler, eversor, tergiversator
one who ruins or spoils his work, bungler, Mim. Oxy. 413.102; = eversor, tergiversator, Gloss.
2 subverter
subverter, τοῦ πολιτεύματος Lyd. Mag. 3.69.
The corpus record
καταστροφ-εύς
katastropheus · ὁ
one who ruins
Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- 2 Timothy 1 · 8.34/10k
- Suppliants 1 · 1.42/10k
- Daniel (LXX) 1 · 0.95/10k
- Machabaeorum II 1 · 0.87/10k
- Machabaeorum I 1 · 0.57/10k
- Genesis 1 · 0.33/10k
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
- History 1 · 0.07/10k
- Histories 1 · 0.05/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- καταστροφῆς · katastrophēs Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 9368)
- καταστροφῇ · katastrophēi Euripides, Suppliants (DIORISIS sentence 152)
- καταστροφῇ · katastrophēi Herodotus, Histories 4.167.3 (DIORISIS sentence 5136)
- καταστροφῇ · katastrophēi New Testament, 2 Timothy 2.14 (DIORISIS sentence 31)
- καταστροφῆς · katastrophēs Septuaginta, Daniel (LXX) 7
- καταστροφῆς · katastrophēs Septuaginta, Genesis 19
6 of 9 attestations shown. Ask for more.
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.
Downloads
Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)
CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable