The corpus record

μᾰγειρ-εῖον

mageireion · τό

butcherʼs shop, cook-shop

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Where it lives

Ezechiel 2 · 0.69/10k

What it meant — LSJ

butcherʼs shop, cook-shop

butcherʼs shop, cook-shop, Arist. HA 629a33, Mir. 833a3, Babr. 79.1.

2 place where food is cooked, kitchen

place where food is cooked, kitchen, IG 2(2).1301 (iii B. C.), PCair.Zen. 6.55 (iii B.C.), PSI 6.669.6 (iii B.C.), LXX Ez. 46.23, Explor.Arch. de Délos 11.262, Dsc. Eup. 1.34, Gal. 6.721.

3 butchers’, cooks’ quarter

pl., butchers’ or cooks’ quarter of Athens, Antiph. 203, Thphr. Char. 6.9. (Written μαγειρεῖον IG, PCair.Zen. ll. cc., μαγιρῖον PSI l.c., μαγιρέον Explor.Arch. de Délos l.c.)

In the wild

μαγειρεῖα · mageireia Septuaginta, Ezechiel 46
μαγειρείων · mageireiōn Septuaginta, Ezechiel 46

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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