The corpus record

μᾰγειρ-εύω

mageireuo

to be a cook, cook meat

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What it meant — LSJ

to be a cook, cook meat

to be a cook, cook meat, Thphr. Char. 6.5, Plu. QConv. 2.704a, Porph. Abst. 3.18: c. acc., μ. τὰ ἱερεῖα Ath. 4.173d, cf. Chor. in Rev.Phil. 1.232:—Pass., τὰ μαγειρευόμενα ὄσπρια Sch. Ar. Pl. 1207.

2 to be a butcher

to be a butcher, Babr. 122.16.

3 butcher, massacre

metaph., butcher, massacre, LXX La. 2.21.

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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