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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

  • "’ Θεόφαστοσι δ’ ἐν τῷ περὶ Ἡδονῆσ καὶ δὴ καὶ τοὺσ Ιὤνάσ φησι διὰ τὴν ὑπερβολὴν τῆσ τρυφῆσ ἔτι καὶ νῦν ἡ χρυσῆ παροιμία διαμεμένηκε καὶ τῶν παρωκεανιτῶν δὲ τινάσ φησι Θεόπομποσ ἐν ὀγδόῃ Φιλιππικῶν ἁβροδιαίτουσ γενέσθαι, περὶ δὲ Βυζαντίων καὶ Καλχηδονίων ὁ αὐτόσ φησι Θεόπομποσ τάδε· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 20 1:102)

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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