κακούργων (kakourgon)

κακούργων is an Ancient Greek form of κακουργέω, meaning “do evil, commit crimes”. It is the present active participle nominative singular masculine.

It can also be a form of κακοῦργος, “doing ill, mischievous, knavish”.

It can also be a form of κάκουργος, “doing ill, mischievous, knavish”. It is the genitive plural masculine adjective.

Found 54 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.45.3: … ι τούτου, ἐπεὶ διεξεληλύθασί γε διὰ πασῶν τῶν ζημιῶν οἱ ἄνθρωποι προστιθέντες, εἴ πως ἧσσον ἀδικοῖντο ὑπὸ τῶν κακούργων. καὶ εἰκὸς τὸ πάλαι τῶν μεγίστων ἀδικημάτων μαλακωτέρας κεῖσθαι αὐτάς, παραβαινομένων δὲ τῷ χρόνῳ ἐς τὸν θάνα …

All forms of κακουργέω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.