ΚΑΚΟΤΕΧΝΟΥΣΑΙ, κακοτεχνουσαι
KAKOTECHNOUSAI, kakotechnousai
Sounds Like: kah-koh-TEKH-noo-sai
Translations: practicing evil arts, practicing evil skills, devising evil, doing evil, using evil cunning
From the root: ΚΑΚΟΤΕΧΝΕΩ
Part of Speech: Participle
Explanation: This word describes someone who practices or devises evil arts, skills, or cunning. It is a compound word formed from 'κακός' (bad, evil) and 'τέχνη' (art, skill, craft). It implies the use of skill or ingenuity for malicious or harmful purposes.
Inflection: Present, Active, Feminine, Nominative, Plural
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 4:68
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΑΚΟΤΕΧΝΕΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΚΑΚΟΤΕΧΝΗΣΩΜΕΝ — we may do evil, we may act maliciously, we may plot evil, we may contrive evil
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