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ἁβροδίαιτος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: habrodiaitos

Principal Part: ἁβροδίαιτος

Structure: ἁβροδιαιτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: δίαιτα

Sense

  1. living delicately, effeminacy

Examples

  • οἱ δὲ φύλακες οἵδε Καμπανοῖς ἁβροδιαίτοις καὶ πολυτελέσιν οὖσι κοινωνοῦντες ἐφθείροντο τὰς γνώμας, καὶ ἐφθόνουν ὧν ἔχουσιν ἀγαθῶν, αὐτοὶ πενόμενοι καὶ τὰ χρέα δεδιότες τὰ ἐν Ῥώμῃ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. living delicately

Related

명사

형용사

동사

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

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