The corpus record

θαυμᾰτοποι-ός

thaumatopoios

wonder-working

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Where it lives

Oeconomica II 1 · 2.13/10k
Economics 1 · 1.61/10k
Sophist 1 · 0.62/10k
Discourses 1 · 0.13/10k
Republic 1 · 0.11/10k

What it meant — LSJ

wonder-working, acrobatic, conjurer, juggler, puppet-showman

wonder-working, ὄνειροι Luc. Somn. 14; acrobatic, κοῦραι Matro Conv. 121: as Subst., conjurer, juggler, Pl. Sph. 235b, D. 2.19: as fem., IG ΙΙ(2).110.34 (Delos, iii B.C.), etc.; puppet-showman, Pl. R. 514b, Phlp. in GA 77.16.

In the wild

θαυματοποιῶν · thaumatopoiōn Aristotle, Economics 1346b (DIORISIS sentence 146)
θαυματοποιῶν · thaumatopoiōn Aristotle, Oeconomica II (DIORISIS sentence 36)
θαυματοποιῶν · thaumatopoiōn Epictetus, Discourses 3.12 (DIORISIS sentence 4419)
θαυματοποιοῖς · thaumatopoiois Plato, Republic 7.514 (DIORISIS sentence 4158)
θαυματοποιῶν · thaumatopoiōn Plato, Sophist 235

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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