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μᾰγειρ-ικός

mageirikos

fit for a cook

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Where it lives

  • Minos 3 · 10.52/10k
  • Statesman 1 · 0.59/10k
  • Theaetetus 1 · 0.44/10k
  • Gorgias 1 · 0.38/10k
  • Republic 1 · 0.11/10k

What it meant — LSJ

fit for a cook, cookery, cookery

fit for a cook or cookery, ῥημάτια Ar. Eq. 216; νόμοι Pl. Min. 316e; πῦρ Arist. Spir. 485a35; κοπίς Plu. Lyc. 2; τάβλια PFay. 104.4 (iii A.D.); σκεύη, τράπεζα, Ath. 4.169b, 173a; ἡ μαγειρικὴ τέχνη cookery, Pl. R. 332c, Athenio 1.1; ἡ μ. ἐμπειρία Pl. Grg. 500b; ἡ -κή alone, Id. Plt. 289a, Dionys.Com. 2.30, etc. Adv. -κῶς, ἐσκευασμένη τροφή, opp. ὠμή, S.E. P. 1.56.

2 skilled in cookery, in a cook-like way, like a true ‘artist’

of persons, skilled in cookery, Pl. Tht. 178d. Adv. -κῶς in a cook-like way, like a true ‘artist’, Ar. Ach. 1015, Eq. 376, Pax 1017.

3 expenses of dressing meat

μαγειρικόν, τό, = μαγειρεῖον, IG 14.352i71 (but, expenses of dressing meat, 22.334.28).

4 meat-trade, tax on butchers

μαγειρική, ἡ, either the meat-trade, or tax on butchers, PZen. in Arch.Pap. 8.79 (iii B.C.), PUniv.Giss. 2.5 (ii B.C.).

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Where it came from

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