Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀβελτερία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀβελτερία

Structure: ἀβελτερι (Stem) + α (Ending)

Sense

  1. silliness, stupidity, fatuity

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ μέχρι μὲν θρήνων ὁ αὐτὸσ ἅπασι νόμοσ τῆσ ἀβελτερίασ· (Lucian, (no name) 19:1)
  • οὗτοσ ὁ ἀνὴρ οὐχ αὑτῷ μόνον οὐδὲ τοῖσ ἑταίροισ, ἀλλὰ τοῖσ μηδὲν προσήκουσιν οἰέται δεῖν ὑπ’ ἀβελτερίασ συμφορὰν γενέσθαι τὴν αὑτοῦ φιλοτιμίαν. (Plutarch, Bruta animalia ratione uti, chapter, section 1 5:2)
  • ἐννόησον δ’ ὅτι τὰσ ἐνίων ἀβελτερίασ καὶ βλακείασ ἐλέγχουσιν ἑτέρων πανουργίαι καὶ δριμύτητεσ, ὅταν ἀλώπεκι καὶ λύκῳ καὶ μελίττῃ παραβάλῃσ ὄνον καὶ πρόβατον ὥσπερ εἰ σαυτῷ τὸν Πολύφημον ἢ τῷ πάππῳ σου τῷ Αὐτολύκῳ τὸν Κορίνθιον ἐκεῖνον Ὅμηρον. (Plutarch, Bruta animalia ratione uti, chapter, section 10 3:2)
  • ὁ μὲν οὖν Μιθριδάτησ ἀπῆλθε σιωπῇ λυπούμενοσ τὸν δὲ ἄθλιον Κᾶρα κοινόν τι πάθοσ ἐξ ἀβελτερίασ κατέσχε. (Plutarch, Artaxerxes, chapter 14 4:1)
  • κακῶσ δὲ ἀπώλετο καὶ Μιθριδάτησ μετ’ ὀλίγον χρόνον ἐκ τῆσ αὐτῆσ ἀβελτερίασ. (Plutarch, Artaxerxes, chapter 15 1:1)

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

Find this word at Perseus Greek Word Study Tool

SEARCH

MENU NAVIGATION