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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κακοῦργος (kakoûrgos) + -ίᾱ (-íā)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.kuːr.ɡí.aː/ → /ka.kurˈʝi.a/ → /ka.kurˈʝi.a/
Noun
κᾰκουργίᾱ • (kakourgíā) f (genitive κᾰκουργίᾱς); first declension
- ill-doing, wickedness, villainy, malice, viciousness
- (in the plural) malpractices
Declension
Further reading
- “κακουργία”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κακουργία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κακοεργίη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “κακουργία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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- felony idem, page 315.
- guilt idem, page 378.
- iniquity idem, page 441.
- knavery idem, page 470.
- malpractice idem, page 510.
- malversation idem, page 510.
- mischief idem, page 533.
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- misdeed idem, page 533.
- misdemeanour idem, page 533.
- rascality idem, page 672.
- sin idem, page 777.
- transgression idem, page 888.
- villainy idem, page 952.
- wickedness idem, page 978.