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ἁβροδίαιτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἁβροδίαιτος

Structure: ἁβροδιαιτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: di/aita

Sense

  1. living delicately, effeminacy

Examples

  • ὁ δὲ Μεγακλείδησ φησὶ τὸν Ὀδυσσέα καθομιλοῦντα τοὺσ καιροὺσ ὑπὲρ τοῦ δοκεῖν ὁμοήθη τοῖσ Φαίαξιν εἶναι τὸ ἁβροδίαιτον αὐτῶν ἀσπάζεσθαι, προπυθόμενον τοῦ Ἀλκίνου· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 7 1:3)
  • "κἀν τῇ πρώτῃ δὲ πρὸσ ταῖσ εἴκοσι τῶν Φιλιππικῶν τὸ τῶν ’ Ὀμβρικῶν φησὶν ἔθνοσ ἐστὶν δὲ περὶ τὸν Ἀδρίαν ἐπιεικῶσ εἶναι ἁβροδίαιτον παραπλησίωσ τε βιοτεύειν τοῖσ Λυδοῖσ χώραν τε ἔχειν ἀγαθήν, ὅθεν προελθεῖν εἰσ εὐδαιμονίαν· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 20 1:105)

Synonyms

  1. living delicately

Related

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

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