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καινο-ποιέω , pf.
A.“κεκαινοποίηκα” Plb.4.2.4:—make new, renew, “τὴν θεραπείαν” Id.15.25.17; κ. ἐλπίδας gives new life to hopes, Id.3.70.11; κ. τά τινος ἁμαρτήματα renew the memory of . . , Id.30.4.17:— Pass., “ἐκαινοποιήθη τὰ τῆς ὀργῆς” Id.21.31.3, cf. 11.4.5, 31.28.9; of a plaster, Philum.Ven.7.9.
II. make changes, innovate, πολλὰ κ. [ἡ τύχη] Plb.1.4.5, etc.: abs., Luc.Prom.Es3, etc.:—Pass., τί καινοποιηθὲν λέγεις; what new-fangled, strange words are these? S.-Tr.873, cf. Plb.9.2.4; τὰ καινοποιηθέντα innovations, OGI669.44 (Egypt, i A. D.), cf. POxy.237 viii 42 (ii A. D.).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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